Cel """Enlightenment on America, America on Enlightenment"" (AMEN) will investigate how the dispute about the New World in the 1770-80s addressed both the construction of a European consciousness and the attempt to provincialize Europe, as a first result of the crisis of the European (Spanish and British) Empires. I propose a dual track enquiry, focusing on the confrontation between the ""History of America"" (1777) by W. Robertson – Scottish historian of the strongest and richest existing European empire– and the ""Storia antica del Messico"" (1780-1) by F.S. Clavigero – Mexican Creole and disbanded Jesuit, exiled to Europe. Both raise important and problematic issues, which yield two alternative, competing conceptions of history and mankind. The analysis of these texts will constitute the first step toward a more general interpretation of eurocentrism, within the framework either of Enlightenment or of Christian universalism. As a further step, I intend to reconstruct Clavigero's reception in Europe. Like many other Creole Jesuits arriving in Europe after the expulsion of the order from Spanish and Portuguese Empires, and in a manner comparable to northern American writers like Jefferson, Clavigero provides another vision of the New World, conceptualizing Mexico’s glorious antiquities as European thinkers hark back to the ancient Roman and Greek heritage for the region of Europe. In Scotland, Clavigero's History, translated into English in 1787, had a strong impact, becoming the main source of the entry ""America"" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which constitutes the most important attempt in the British context to summarize existing knowledge about the world and its history. The comparative perspective provided by the Clavigero-Robertson debate aims to highlight two universal histories dominated by Europe. But their diverging Eurocentric conceptions of mankind offer a new vision of the world with Europe representing just one of different and competing provinces." Dziedzina nauki humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistoryancient history Słowa kluczowe (limits of) modernity America Christianity Enlightenment Europe Humanities comparison early modern history historiography intellectual & cultural history postcolonial studies progress race Program(-y) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) PEOPLE-2007-2-1.IEF - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development" Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Koordynator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS Wkład UE € 215 908,45 Adres RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 75794 Paris Francja Zobacz na mapie Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Kontakt administracyjny Alain Weiswald (Mr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych
