Jaime Eyzaguirre and the circulation of Hispanism in Chile

Abstract

The work offers an interpretation of one of the sources of conservative, evenreactionary, thought in twentieth-century Chile, a hitherto unknown milestone, as well asthe context in which it occurred and the first signs of an ideology that ended up circulatingthroughout Latin America through people, texts and institutions, and transforming alsothe pastoral and political visit of the first cardinal of the Catholic Church who visitedChile, in 1923, into an instrument of ideological circulation. Based on the work of theChilean intellectual, essayist and historian Jaime Eyzaguirre, whose first publications dateback to 1924, we will expose the origin of his Hispanicist thought, as well as the socialand political influence of a figure in the national cultural scene who was also characterizedfor his Catholicism, traditionalism and conservatism, all of which he projected throughnumerous initiatives and publications.