La Ilustración en Santo Domingo durante los siglos XVIII-XIX

Abstract

The present research pursues to investigate the presence and the development of the illustrated ideas in Santo Domingo during the XVIII and XIX centuries. On this regard, I have asked myself the following questions: How has illustration influenced in Santo Domingo? Which thinkers can be considered as illustrated? Which social movements carried out in Santo Domingo can be considered as projections of the illustration movement? What kind of influence have the dominican illustrated people received? Thesis: 1. The reform and social transformation ideas and proposals likely to the european illustrated project served as a theoretical paradigm to the pedagogical experts, intellectuals and politicians that criticized the scholastic tradition during the XVIII and XIX centuries in Santo Domingo. 2. The illustration movement gave direction to all social and political movement of an alternative and emancipating character that emerged during the Dominican XIX century. 3. The illustration movement in Santo Domingo developed itself through the policy of an intellectual minority of middle class origin that took participation of the political, social, and pedagogical praxis of dominican people. 4. The Dominican illustrated people expressed their ideas through books, manifestoes, talk pannels, and through the pedagogical action. The comprehension of the illustration movement in Santo Domingo goes through a reflection about the European illustration movement of the XVIII century and of the hispanoamerican one of the XVIII and XIX centuries as well. Text and context appears in the present doctoral research through a harmonious dialectic relation.