The Receptions and Uses of Machiavelli in Spanish America: Between Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism

In this episode of New Work in Intellectual History, Dr Leandro Losada talks about the circulation and uses of Machiavelli in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Along his book Maquiavelo en la Argentina: Usos y lecturas, 1830-1940, published in 2019 with Katz Editores in Buenos Aires, and his more recent research on The Receptions and Uses of Machiavelli in Spanish America: Between Liberalism and Antiliberalism (1810-1940), Leandro explains how liberal and anti-liberal thinkers in Argentina specifically and Spanish America more broadly approached Machiavelli from the ruptures of colonialism through the formation of nation states and until the crisis of liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century. 

Dr Leandro Losada is an independent researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Associate Professor at the School of Politics and Government at the National University of San Martín in Argentina, as well as former Wallace Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. Leandro works in the field of Atlantic and Connected history. He is particularly interested in the history of elites and of political thought in Spanish America, with much of his research focussing on Machiavelli in America.