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Submitted July 12, 2022
Published 2022-07-12

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): Societas

JUSTO AROSEMENA AND THE ROMANTIC RECEPTION OF EVOLUTIONISM BY THE PANAMA OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY


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Published: 2022-07-12

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Villareal, C. A., & De Gracia, G. I. (2022). JUSTO AROSEMENA AND THE ROMANTIC RECEPTION OF EVOLUTIONISM BY THE PANAMA OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Societas, 24(2), 50–107. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/societas/article/view/3003

Abstract

The study by our historians of the interest and contributions of the Isthmians to Natural History and evolutionism during the nineteenth centuries has been non-existent; partly due to the lack of corresponding documentation and the low educational level of the population in that period. However, a more detailed study has shown that the nineteenth-century Isthmian man showed interest in these problems, at least at the popular level. This paper presents the attention that two Panamanian thinkers of that century, Justo Arosemena Quesada (1817-1896) and Manuel José Pérez (1820-1903), showed for modern evolutionary theories, especially those attributed to Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). The role played by positivist philosophy and the metaphors of Darwinist revolution and Darwin industry in the correct interpretation of the role played by Isthmian intellectuals in the reception and study of evolutionism during the Panamanian Romantic period is carefully discussed.

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