Ideas and Society in Don Porfirio's Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8873069
AutoresW Dirk Raat (SUNY Fredonia, autor de correspondencia), William D Raat
Año1973
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas32-53
Fecha de publicación1973-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1615 • E-ISSN: 1533-6247
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/980446
OpenAlexW2313035889
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas25

An opinion often expressed by historians of Mexico and Latin America is that the age of Don Porfirio's Mexico was one in which the philosophy of positivism, wherther Comtean or Spencerian, was the dominant and official ideology of the day. In contrast to this viewpoint, an important supposition of this essay is that the intellectual history of the Porfiriato can only become intelligible if and when other ideas, concepts, and philosophies are distinguished from positivism. In addition, an accurate description of the role of ideas necessitates that some attention be focused upon the function of ideas in society. Thus a concern of this essay, apart from differentiating ideas, is that of suggesting the interrelationship of ideas to certain political and socio-economic groups during the Porfiriato. To do this properly will first require a statement about the social structure of Mexico between 1876 and 1911

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