Mauro José Caraccioli, "Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire" (U Florida Press, 2021)
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Political Theory - What Did the First Generations of Thinkers Across the Americas Experience?
i didn't want to be a traditional latin american politic scholar, which is something more into perhaps the field of comparative politics. I wanted to do something with political theory, and specifically with thi thing we call the history of political thought. And i came across the writings anthony pagden that manyof your listeners are probably famil with,. A lot of pagden's work left for me a kind of void about what did the first generations of thinkers travelled to the America actually experience? Am so the kind of seeds of wonder we're genuinely in the wonder of how come all these people are talking about indigenous communities, and they're talking about who's a human being and what counts
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