Abstract

GONZALEZ DE REQUENA FARRE, Juan Antonio. Inflections of criticism in the Spanish Renaissance thought. Franciscanum [online]. 2022, vol.64, n.178, pp.6-6.  Epub Oct 10, 2022. ISSN 0120-1468.  https://doi.org/10.21500/01201468.5541.

In the contemporary debate on the critical sense of modernity, the invocation of a comprehensive philosophical self-conception of the critical task as reflective and universal consciousness or as free existential self-transformation is frequent. Through an interpretive reconstruction of critical attitudes, practices, and discourses in Hispanic Renaissance thought, this article sets out to vindicate the importance of the different critical traditions that serve as the background for immanent and situated critical judgment. In the Hispanic Renaissance, critical discourses as different as humanist historical-philological criticism, the naturalization of critical judgment, heterodox dialogue and intercultural critical questioning coexist. Given the multiform and situated character of modern critical traditions, it can be concluded that the philosophical self-conception of modernity as an era of criticism based on reflective and transparent self-consciousness, or on the exercise of unlimited suspicion, does not have much support.

Keywords : Critical thinking; Cultural History; Philosophical schools; Humanism.

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