Abstract
The study of the process of construction of modern subjectivity offers an image of constant tensions between universality and particularity, which could be considered a manifestation of the conflictual nature of Modernity itself. As a way to solve the problems derived of the separation between universal and particular dimensions of this process -that has resulted in opposing interpretations regarding its confesional nature- a close study of the particular experience of the seventeenth-century thinker António Lopes da Veiga is presented here. This study is intended to provide some insight of the way in which similar intelectual concerns -of an international scale- over interiority and exteriority in epistemology, political thought, philology, theology and history, resulted in the constitution of a particular perspective regarding the individual.
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RESUMEN: Cuando el infierno son los demás
The study of the process of construction of modern subjectivity offers an image of constant tensions between universality and particularity, which could be considered a manifestation of the conflictual nature of Modernity itself
As a first step to unraveling the many conflicts underlying our understanding of this process, it is important to consider that the narratives regarding the emergence of modern subjectivity somehow reproduce the contradicting views of Modernity, as denounced by Hazard
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In recent years there has been an increasing effort to provide a meaningful description of the genealogy of Modernity which would overcome the conflicts of traditional narratives. The implications of those examples multiply if we consider how evangelization, discipline, and the regulation of manners, far from being practices restricted to particular cultural settings, had similar manifestations across the European context as well as those traditionally considered as colonial contexts, which has led to confirm a continuity in the proliferation of similar disciplinary systems in all those situations (Prosperi, 1996: 551; Ditchfield, 2013: 30; Cañete and Torres, 2017) All these works have certainly contributed to a more profound understanding of the multiple and contradictory dimensions of the process of constructing modern subjectivity. This author is the Portuguese António Lopes da Veiga (or López de Vega), undeniably one of the most radical skeptical thinkers of seventeenth-century Iberia
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