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Francisco Bilbao and the “danger” of fashion in South America

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No. 52 (2020): Junio

Abstract

In Latin America during the nineteenth century, the theme of fashion has been recurrent. Fashion understood as the introduction of novelty in the face of ancient customs. Based on the methodology proper to the “history of political concepts”, it is proposed to go through three texts, as a representative universe, in order to give an account of the original contributions of this Chilean author, Francisco Bilbao, has been one of the nineteenth-century thinkers who dedicated his life to problematizing the state of “independence” of nations in South America. His diagnosis implied demonstrating how the Catholic Church and the Hispanic cultural world generated the state of poverty, barbarism and abdication of thought. What are the therapeutics that he proposes to get out of this old and retarded culture? Bilbao proposes to introduce certain political fashions that, although they generate the “sensation of danger”, are the only ones that through education can modify the customs of a nation.

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Francisco Bilbao, Political fashions, Nineteenth century, South America

Author Biography

Nathalie Goldwaser Yankelevich, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Ciencias Sociales (UBA) y Doctora en Ciencias del Arte (Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne), Magíster en “Comunicación y Cultura” y Licenciada en Ciencia Política (UBA), investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Universidad de Buenos Aires - Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (UBAIEALC) / profesora de la Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda (UNDAV), directora del Proyecto de Investigación UBACyT: “Moda y diferencias de los sexos: la construcción política de las naciones del sur de América hispana. 1810-1910”.

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Goldwaser Yankelevich, N. (2020). Francisco Bilbao and the “danger” of fashion in South America. Cuadernos De Historia, (52), pp. 183–204. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/57542
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