The Concept and Politics of Tyranny and Dictatorship in the Spanish American Revolutions of 1810
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13079646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | María Victoria Crespo (0000-0002-9665-4564, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-114 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Redescriptions Political Thought Conceptual History and Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2308-0906 • E-ISSN: 2308-0914 |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI) |
| DOI | 10.7227/r.10.1.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2329156685 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This conceptual history of 'tyranny' and 'dictatorship' in revolutionary Spanish America has a twofold purpose: First, it seeks to look at the historicity of these political concepts and address the different phases of their development during the Spanish American revolutionary period.It explores the questions: What are the mutations of the meaning of 'tyranny'?From what traditions of political thought did these meanings come from?Why in a certain period does 'tyranny' become central in the revolutionary political vocabulary?Why does the term gradually start to decline and to be replaced by 'dictatorship'?Second, it looks at the politics of the concepts of tyranny and dictatorship.Following Carl Schmitt's maxim that "all political concepts, images, and terms have a polemical meaning," I intend to unfold the concrete, strategic and combative meaning of these terms during the revolutions of 1810. 1 This is an account of both the meaning and uses of political concepts during the Spanish American wars of Independence, and of the warlike use of concepts.However, this article seeks to go beyond the Schmittian polemical intention: the concept of tyranny was not only a powerful conceptual weapon against the enemies of the revolutionaries, but anti-tyranny language constituted the political discursive horizon for the emergence of a new political legitimacy in Spanish America
Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
The constitution of tyranny
The Concept of the Political
Recent Studies on the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Latin America
On the Thesis of the Essential Contestability of Concepts, and 19th Century Latin American Intellectual History
The Creation of the American Republic
The Spanish-American Tradition of Representation and its European Roots
Two treatises of government
On Political Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
The Scholastic Roots of the Spanish American Revolution
The Principle of Consent in Latin and Anglo-American Independence
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |