Towards an essence of the chilenan identity. The utopy of Chilean conservantine historiography at twentieth-century: Alberto Edwards, Francisco A. Encina and Jaime Eyzaguirre.

Abstract

The following article seeks to relate the historical essays by Edwards, Encina and Eyzaguirre -which belong to the twentieth-century Chilean conservative historiographical current- to the utopian conservative postulate of Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge. The aim is to reveal the historical distortions of the past that determine the school of conservative thought, and its interest in reflecting an essentialist identity of Chile within the socio-historical context of the crisis of that time, in which their works were produced (XX century). In sum, it is a sociological analysis applied to the field of historiography from theoretical and empirical grounds.