Abstract

QUIJANO VELASCO, Francisco. La filosofía en la Conquista of Silvio Zavala. Contributions and limits of a history of ideas. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2018, n.155, pp.91-109.  Epub Feb 28, 2022. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.155.2018.289.

This article examines Silvio Zavala’s studies of the political and philosophical controversies on the Conquest of America. The analysis of its content and methodology, as well as the discussions in which he participated with these works, shows how the historian took on a perspective closer to the so-called "traditional history of ideas" than the scientism or positivism with which it is commonly associated.

Herein Zavala’s important contributions to the field of Spanish American political thought are recognized. However, it is stressed the limits of his methodological approach, which prevented him from making a major historiographical contribution.

Keywords : History of Ideas; Conquest of America; Colonialism; Spanish American political thought.