%0 Journal Article %A Seco Martínez, José María %T The role of legal science in 19th century spanish liberal reformism %D 2021 %@ 1885-589X %U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/9889 %X The truth is that 19th Century Spanish society began to integrate ¿ with its unique socio-cultural particularities and somewhat later than othercountries ¿ into what we might call the world system of Western capitalistmodernity, to the extent that it could ¿ and indeed did ¿ create the conditionsfor governing its own reproduction. Spanish society, with its differences and its¿traditional way of being,¿ could not remain oblivious for any longer to a neworder, a paradigmatic configuration of reality that, in turn, shaped the order ofthings, events, and categories. Indeed, well into the 19th Century, Spain hadnot yet embarked fully on the processes of Western modernity (secularisationand democratisation). The role modern legal science has carried out a crucialpart in the Spanish contemporary history. It was essential in the arrival toSpain of the process of the Age of Enlightenment, linked to the principles ofsecularization and democratization. %K Filosofía social %K Ciencia jurídica %K Liberalismo reformista español %K Democracia %~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN