Etica Rural y Utopía Campesina en Domingos Vandelli (1789)

Etica Rural y Utopía Campesina en Domingos Vandelli (1789)

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A la Modernidad por la Agricultura: Etica Rural y
Utopía Campesina en Domingos Vandelli (1789) y
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1794)
Alvaro Kaempfer
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Kaempfer, A. A la Modernidad por la Agricultura: Etica Rural y Utopía Campesina en Domingos Vandelli (1789) y Gaspar Melchor de
Jovellanos (1794). Dieciocho. 2007. 30(2): 339-363.
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A la Modernidad por la Agricultura: Etica Rural y Utopía Campesina en
Domingos Vandelli (1789) y Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1794)
Abstract
A fines del siglo 18, Vandelli y Jovellanos retornan a las reformas pombalinas y borbónicas de Portugal y
España, respectivamente, para esbozar un proyecto que complete la modernización. Buscaban encarar la
Modernidad de la Europa de Norte examinando la trayectoria cultural ibérica para diseñar su propia
Modernidad. Esta Modernidad debía estar organizada en torno a la relación entre ética y economía sobre un
programa cuya fortaleza surgía del mundo rural. Bajo esta perspectiva, ambos autores le dan forma a una
narrativa cultural que integra tecnología, control demográfico y agricultura en función de un proyecto de
modernización de la península ibérica.
By the end of the 18th century, Vandelli and Jovellanos looked back on the Pombaline and Borbonic reforms
in Portugal and Spain, respectively, to propose reforms that could complete their modernization. They wanted
to match North European Modernity by examining the cultural trajectory of the Iberian empires to forge their
own Modernity. That Modernity should be organized around a relationship between ethics and economics,
and engaged in a political program whose strength was coming from the rural world. Both of them give form
to a cultural narrative that integrates technology, demographic control and agriculture in order to modernize
the Iberian Peninsula.
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