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Abstract

In his time, Antonio de Capmany (1742-1813) was the most prominent intellectual in the service of the interests of Barcelona, in a willingness to articulate the energy of that city with the efforts of enlightened despotism to relaunch Spain as a continental and colonial power. Extensive knowledge and assimilation of European culture of the Enlightenment allowed him to associate the historical experience of the Catalan capital with modern values. It was not a simple varnish, since the defense of Barcelona as the focus of progress was constructed from documented empirical data and sensory impressions, according to the principles preached by the great British philosophers against speculative rationalism and its incessant occurrences.

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Title
ANTONIO DE CAPMANY Y LA CIUDAD DE BARCELONA: EL VALOR DE LO EMPÍRICO EN LA SENDA DEL PROGRESO/Antonio de Capmany and the city of Barcelona: the value of experience in the path of progress
Author
I Fernández, Ramon Grau
Pages
73-113
Publication year
2016
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
15767914
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1874390515
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2016