El «experimento americano» y los orígenes del concepto moderno de revolución
This article explores the conceptual change of revolution concept during the American Revolution. This event happened in a key historical moment that historian Reinhart Koselleck has called Sattelzeit, a historical period in which an unchanged political language suffered great and unexpected transfo...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6720720 |
| Source: | Revista de estudios políticos, ISSN 0048-7694, Nº 182, 2018, pags. 71-98 |
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This article explores the conceptual change of revolution concept during the American Revolution. This event happened in a key historical moment that historian Reinhart Koselleck has called Sattelzeit, a historical period in which an unchanged political language suffered great and unexpected transformations. The main goal of my article will be to demonstrate how the old meaning of the concept revolution showed semantic limits during the American Revolution. While the old meaning of the concept was a useful rhetoric tool when the independence was seek in the north American colonies, it showed limitations when the revolutionary generation needed a notion to express their will to perform social and political changes. For that reason the Founding Fathers used the concept of experiment in order to get the political idea that the old concept of revolution can’t express. |
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