Antonio de Capmany y la ciudad de Barcelona: el valor de lo empírico en la senda del progreso

In his time, Antonio de Capmany (1742-1813) was the most prominent intellectual in the service of the interests of Barcelona, in a willingness to articulate the energy of that city with the efforts of enlightened despotism to relaunch Spain as a continental and colonial power. Extensive knowledge an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Grau I Fernández, Ramon
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/133691
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/133691
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Historia
Literatura
Pensamiento
Arte
Ciencia
Siglo dieciocho
History
Literature
Thought and thinking
Arts. Science
Eighteenth century
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Sumario:In his time, Antonio de Capmany (1742-1813) was the most prominent intellectual in the service of the interests of Barcelona, in a willingness to articulate the energy of that city with the efforts of enlightened despotism to relaunch Spain as a continental and colonial power. Extensive knowledge and assimilation of European culture of the Enlightenment allowed him to associate the historical experience of the Catalan capital with modern values. It was not a simple varnish, since the defense of Barcelona as the focus of progress was constructed from documented empirical data and sensory impressions, according to the principles preached by the great British philosophers against speculative rationalism and its incessant occurrences.