Abstract

HERNANDEZ SUAREZ, Diana Marisol. Immaterial and incorporeal nationalism: towards a history of aesthetic ideas in XIX Mexico. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.7-48.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.454.

Aesthetics, a neologism documented in 18th-century German philosophy, was introduced to the Spanish-speaking world in the mid-19th century through French translations published in the Spanish liberal press. The purpose of this article is to try to answer how aesthetics was initially understood in Mexico, what were its conceptual antecedents and in which disciplinary fields did it begin to develop. Although it is possible to notice it in the periodical press and in some study programs, aesthetics acquires a programmatic character in Francisco Pimentel’s Historia crítica de la poesía en México (1892), possibly the only work that addresses literature as an aesthetic issue in the nineteenth-century Mexico. This article will analyze said work as an attempt to implement aesthetics under the notion of “literary science”, in service of the conformation of a “national literature”.

Keywords : aesthetics; criticism; Mexican literature; Francisco Pimentel; intellectual history.

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