“Una singular defensa novohispana de la República de las Letras: Oración vindicativa (1763) de Cristóbal Mariano Coriche”.

Written by Dominique Cristóbal Mariano Coriche of Puebla, Oración vindicativa del honor de las letras y de los literatos (1763) is an essay conceived in New Spain as a reply to a discourse published a decade earlier in France. This discourse maintained with the passage of time intellectual activity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Robles, José Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/4
Acceso en línea:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cristóbal Mariano Coriche
New Spain
Catholic Enlightenment
Republic of Letters
Novo-Hispanic essays.
Nueva España
Ilustración católica
república literaria
ensayo novohispano
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Sumario:Written by Dominique Cristóbal Mariano Coriche of Puebla, Oración vindicativa del honor de las letras y de los literatos (1763) is an essay conceived in New Spain as a reply to a discourse published a decade earlier in France. This discourse maintained with the passage of time intellectual activity had brought moral corruption to mankind. Coriche’s writing tries to oppose such an idea, defending the practice of knowledge as a virtue, not only from an intellectual standpoint, but also from the point of view of faith. In this paper, I propose that Coriche develops his own conception of the Republic of Letters and of the ideal intellectual in an effort to demonstrate that the fusion of Catholic faith with the development of knowledge is the true basis of human progress.