Introducción a la preilustración universalista

Abstract

This article offers a descriptive introduction of the Spanish pre- enlightenment, discriminating the characteristic features of the ‘novator’ movement, the difficulties that prevented its natural development and, in a comparative way, the initiatives and works, with a clear programmatic intention, of the group of teachers who met at the University of Cervera in the second half of the eighteenth century. The main purpose is to discern, in these teachers, an alternative prelude to that of the “novatores” that serves as a precedent to the Spanish Universalist School, and that takes on its meaning in the light of its presuppositions.