Abstract

LINARES-LONDONO, Óscar Javier. Faces of the republican turn in Hispanic America: Reflection of the Anglo-Saxon Historiographic and Methodological Mirror?. Folios [online]. 2022, n.56, pp.185-204.  Epub Nov 10, 2022. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.56-13197.

In this review article, I present some of the most recent proposals about the republic and republicanism in Hispanic America. According to such theories, the ideological origin of the political Hispanic American modernity is tethered to the republic tradition (Republican turn), instead of the liberal ideals. My interest in these topics rests on the astonishment that caused me a paradoxical fact: although these theses were presented as innovative reflective theories (methodological turn), their arguments continue to suffer from old problems of the traditional historiography (anachronisms, teleologisms). The debates and frequent contradictions became a challenge for me: understanding if the supposed historiographic revolution (associated with innovation) was still suffused with old mistakes (associated with tradition). In order to do so, I reconstruct when and how emerged republican thesis in our context. After that, I highlight the connections and tensions between the mentioned theories and the philosophical, methodological, and historiographic discussion in the Anglo-Saxon context. After analyzing the conceptual rigor, I noticed that part of the enigma rests on the fact that there is no relation between the republican and the methodological turns, therefore, to avoid falling into old contradictions, it is fundamental to ask again about the methods of the intellectual history of Latin America.

Keywords : republican turn; methodological turn; ideological origins; liberalism.

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