Historiography of the Intellectual Path of Vicente Riva Palacio

Abstract

Vicente Riva Palacio is considered by Mexican historiography as one of the most important intellectuals in the construction of the nation’s project of the modern Mexican Republic. He was a social actor with diverse profiles: military, humanist, writer and politician, an also an intellectual paradigm. In addition, the understanding of his life and work has also generated different definitions of the intellectual in Mexico. Thus, the historiography of such studies would allow us to establish a general definition of the liberal Mexican intellectual of the late nineteenth century.