Blanco White: an activist against absolutism. From liberalism to the colonial matter

Authors

  • Ana M. Jara Gómez Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v21i61.265

Keywords:

Blanco White, Semanario Patriótico, El Español, constitutionalism 1812, Jeremy Bentham, Hispano- American Enlightenment

Abstract

José María Blanco White is one of the most attractive figures at the beginning of Spanish contemporary history and one of the most unfairly reviled. Even though his writings and his thought are still today largely undiscovered, this controversial and unorthodox liberal portrays a critical exponent of the most important crisis of conscience that Spain has known in its history, the Old Regime crisis, the Enlightenment breakdown, and the emergence of the new liberal era in the years of the War of Independence. His exile in England (1810-1841) enabled him not only to relate to some of the most prominent British thinkers, but also to realize America. There is where he will find out that a part of Spain is able and actually must get rid of the yoke of tyranny and misrule.

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Published

2015-01-07

How to Cite

Jara Gómez, A. M. (2015). Blanco White: an activist against absolutism. From liberalism to the colonial matter. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 21(61), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v21i61.265

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 61: Espiral 61 (september-december 2014)

Section

Estado

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