Materialism and atheism in Galicia, 1790-1815

Abstract

In the present work we draw a small route with regard to the (about) manifestations or expressions of atheism and materialism, popular and cultured (enlightened), by the end of XVIII century and the two following decades of the XIX century, in deeph, as from the inquisitorial archives of the Court of Santiago de Compostela or Galicia. Using a mixed methodology (conceptual history, cultural anthropology, history of ideologies, the history of philosophy, etc.) and based on nineteenth century documentary sources taken from the Arquivo Histórico da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (little known) or form the Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid (inedited), in anarchaeological way, we try to reconstruct 25 eventful years of the Galician culture, focusing particularly on the history of philosophical thought.