Humboldt y la Occidentalización de América

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Published 31-10-2014
Luis Ricardo Davila

Abstract

The article examines how between the 18th and the 19th century were brought to America, through the so-called "scientific travellers", great concepts and great tools of the Westernization of the American mentality: reason, science and technique. And how the baron and German scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) contributed particularly to this Westernization. It was formed a mentality and a conceptual system that favored "Eurocentrism", and was seeking to express themselves differently to as had been the American expression from the 15th century to the first half of the 18th century.

How to Cite

Davila, L. R. (2014) “Humboldt y la Occidentalización de América”, Ariadna Histórica. Lenguajes, conceptos, metáforas, (3), pp. 159–193. Available at: https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/Ariadna/article/view/7869 (Accessed: 18 July 2024).
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Keywords

American expression, background discourses, scientific curiosity, cultural hegemony, scientific travelers

Section
MISCELÁNEA