De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX
Perhaps due to their affected nature, political histories have tended to express disdain for the extravagant expressions found in the political language of the nineteenth century. The spectacular collapse of the monarchical universe at the beginning of the century involved the emergence of dizzying...
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| description | Perhaps due to their affected nature, political histories have tended to express disdain for the extravagant expressions found in the political language of the nineteenth century. The spectacular collapse of the monarchical universe at the beginning of the century involved the emergence of dizzying experiences regarding the foundation, forms and subjects of the political community and so forms, practices and languages emerged to imagine it and define it, but also contain it. Passions –exacerbated, pursued, liberated– appear stubbornly, repeatedly, obsessively in the political universe of the epoch: “the meekness of the American heart,” “the toxic vapors produced by rancor and spite,” “the unhealed wounds” that “lead men to commit ferocious, remorseless excesses” are common expressions in the political language of the time. The place granted by historical understanding to such an uncomfortable understanding of the human is less clear, however. This article shows that passions –and their particular way of conceiving the human– became an object of calculation and political action, as well as an essential mechanism for understanding the duties and concerns implied by the emergence of unprecedented political orders. In this effort to channel passions as the very possibility of order, complaints about the clergy exacerbated passions regarding the image of a Catholic and republican political community that served as a barrier against a universe that was increasingly ominous and difficult to control. |
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| spelling | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article-49242025-05-16T02:19:39Z Of Guts, Tissues and Abstract Ideas: Republican Passions and Figurations of the Human in the Early Nineteenth Century De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX Hensel, Franz Colombia lenguaje político república historia del cuerpo fisiología siglo XIX Colombia political language republic history of the body physiology 19th Century Perhaps due to their affected nature, political histories have tended to express disdain for the extravagant expressions found in the political language of the nineteenth century. The spectacular collapse of the monarchical universe at the beginning of the century involved the emergence of dizzying experiences regarding the foundation, forms and subjects of the political community and so forms, practices and languages emerged to imagine it and define it, but also contain it. Passions –exacerbated, pursued, liberated– appear stubbornly, repeatedly, obsessively in the political universe of the epoch: “the meekness of the American heart,” “the toxic vapors produced by rancor and spite,” “the unhealed wounds” that “lead men to commit ferocious, remorseless excesses” are common expressions in the political language of the time. The place granted by historical understanding to such an uncomfortable understanding of the human is less clear, however. This article shows that passions –and their particular way of conceiving the human– became an object of calculation and political action, as well as an essential mechanism for understanding the duties and concerns implied by the emergence of unprecedented political orders. In this effort to channel passions as the very possibility of order, complaints about the clergy exacerbated passions regarding the image of a Catholic and republican political community that served as a barrier against a universe that was increasingly ominous and difficult to control. Nuestras historias políticas han desdeñado, quizá por afectadas, algunas de las expresiones excesivas de las que está teñido el lenguaje político del siglo XIX. El aparatoso desmoronamiento del universo monárquico de principios del siglo XIX implicó la emergencia de experiencias ciertamente vertiginosas alrededor de los fundamentos, formas y sujetos de la comunidad política. Emergieron, así, formas, prácticas y lenguajes que intentaron imaginarla y definirla, pero también contenerla. Las pasiones –exacerbadas, encausadas, liberadas– aparecen de forma terca, reiterada, obsesiva en el universo político de principios de siglo: la “mansedumbre del corazón americano”, “los vapores ponzoñosos producidos por el rencor y el encono”, la “llagas sin curación” que “precipitan a los hombres a cometer todo exceso de impiedad y fiereza” son figuras reiteradas en el lenguaje político de principios de siglo. Es menos claro, no obstante, el lugar que la comprensión histórica da a tan incómoda experiencia de lo humano. Este artículo muestra que las pasiones –y su particular forma de concebir lo humano– se convirtieron en objeto de cálculo y acción política y en vehículos fundamentales para comprender las tareas y preocupaciones que trajo consigo la emergencia de órdenes políticos inéditos. En el esfuerzo por encausar las pasiones como posibilidad misma del orden coexistieron las quejas sobre clérigos que exacerbaban las pasiones con la imagen de una comunidad política católica y republicana que servía de dique a un universo cada vez más azaroso y difícil de controlar. El Colegio de México, A.C. 2025-03-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/xml https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/4924 10.24201/hm.v74i4.4924 Historia Mexicana; Vol. 74, Núm. 4 (296) abril-junio 2025; 1661-1702 2448-6531 0185-0172 spa https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/4924/5527 https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/4924/5575 Derechos de autor 2025 Historia Mexicana |
| spellingShingle | Colombia lenguaje político república historia del cuerpo fisiología siglo XIX Colombia political language republic history of the body physiology 19th Century Hensel, Franz De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title | De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title_alt | Of Guts, Tissues and Abstract Ideas: Republican Passions and Figurations of the Human in the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_full | De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title_fullStr | De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title_full_unstemmed | De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title_short | De vísceras, tejidos e ideas abstractas: pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del XIX |
| title_sort | de visceras tejidos e ideas abstractas pasiones republicanas y figuraciones de lo humano a principios del xix |
| topic | Colombia lenguaje político república historia del cuerpo fisiología siglo XIX Colombia political language republic history of the body physiology 19th Century |
| topic_facet | Colombia lenguaje político república historia del cuerpo fisiología siglo XIX Colombia political language republic history of the body physiology 19th Century |
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