Abstract

La produccion intelectual en torno a la relacion entre Europa y America Latina en el plano de las ideas ha sido prolifica y ha acompanado toda la historia de la region latinoamericana desde el siglo XV. Sin embargo, dicha tematica se dinamizo en el siglo XIX, cuando no solo la independencia politica, sino tambien la independencia intelectual, coparon los espacios de debate entre los criollos de las jovenes naciones. El dilema se dividia entre seguir las influencias europeas o generar un pensamiento propio. El presente articulo busca superar este dilema, argumentando que la elite intelectual en Chile, en funcion de la demanda de su propio entorno, importo y apropio ideas producidas en el extranjero para su utilizacion en el contexto local. Para esto, el articulo hace un recorrido historico identificando las ideas circulantes que motivaron la independencia en Chile asi como aquellas que fueron utilizadas para la construccion del Estado Nacion a lo largo del siglo XIX. Lo anterior busca ademas aportar nuevos enfoques en el debate mas amplio entre identidad y modernidad en America Latina. English: The intellectual production around the relationship between Europe and Latin America in the realm of ideas has been prolific and has accompanied the entire history of the Latin American region since the fifteenth century. However, this subject was stimulated in the nineteenth century, when not only political independence, but also intellectual independence, packed spaces of debate among the Creoles of young nations. The dilemma was divided between following European influences or generate own thinking. This article seeks to overcome this dilemma, arguing that the intellectual elite in Chile, according to the demand of their own environment, imported and appropriated ideas produced abroad for use in the local context. For this, the article makes a historical overview identifying circulating ideas that led to independence in Chile and ideas that were used for the consolidation of the Republic. The above with the aim of providing new approaches in the wider debate between identity and modernity in Latin America.

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