When Hell is Other People. Interiority and Skepticism in António Lopes da Veiga

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https://doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2017.012

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António Lopes de Veiga, Modernity, Subjectivity, Universality, Particularity, Interiority, Exteriority, Skepticism

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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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2017-12-30

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Rodríguez Mediano, F., & Cañete, C. (2017). When Hell is Other People. Interiority and Skepticism in António Lopes da Veiga. Culture &Amp; History Digital Journal, 6(2), e012. https://doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2017.012

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