Francisco Bilbao and the Revista del Nuevo Mundo

America and the republic as «horizon of expectation»

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to outline the semantic and reflective construction of America and the republican ideal in the Revista del Nuevo Mundo. The concepts «America» and «republic» are immersed in a process of ideologization that outlines a «horizon of expectation» that is reflected in a semantics related to freedom, organization, nationality, justice, and sovereignty. This political vocabulary is part of the ideology of Francisco Bilbao, founder of the magazine. Firstly, the Revista del Nuevo Mundo will be approached as a to support ideas, the context in which it appears, the formal characteristics that it presents and an approach to the cultural and intellectual networks around its founder. The second part will address the semantic construction around the concepts «America» and «republic» as a «horizon of expectation» intertwined with the ideas of «union» and «future».