Journal Article

Mexican Modernity, Science Magazines, and Scientific Personality: Santiago Sierra’s El Mundo Científico (1877–78)

Blanco, María del Pilar

2016

Overview

During the second half of the nineteenth century, science columns in papers from Mexico City and beyond, as well as a range of other publications, paid special attention to the developments and advancements that were emerging in Western Europe and the United States; some cast a critical eye on the underdevelopment of the science establishment in the country.1 During the period known as the República Restaurada, which followed the ousting of Habsburg emperor Maximilian I by Benito Juárez's forces in 1867, efforts to develop a scientific culture, and with it an official scientific rhetoric, emerged from within a massive reform of Mexican educational structures. [...]discussions of the discourse of modernity that are characteristic of this period, whose results were hugely detrimental for the country at large, have been easily juxtaposed against a revolutionary rhetoric that, emerging in the second decade of the twentieth century, has served as a corrective to the naïveté, as well as the misdirections, of the fin de siècle.

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Subject: 19th century / Bibliographic literature / Modernization / Perceptions / Personality / Positivism / Rhetoric / Science