Time of the sacred : conceptualizing the political in Franco's Spain
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- A prevalent characteristic of the twentieth century is a hyper-affirmation of the human subject's enslavement to the order of nature and a denial of any transcendental mode of accessing a spirituality beyond the confines of reason. This transition has underpinnings in Darwinism and Hegel's Weltgeist, which roots Spirit securely within the confines of world history and not in a transcendent, eternal beyond. The emergence of postsecularism in the last two decades alongside a general belief in the decline of Western liberalism has additionally raised the specter that political thought and institution building retains essential components of traditionally religious and premodern methods of social formation. A cursory glance at the literature post-war Spain reveals, decades prior to the purported decline of secularity, an astonishing repetition of authors relating to, subverting and rearticulating political sovereignty through the mediation of the sacred, which Émile Durkheim argues is nothing other than an auto-reflexive image of society "hypostasized and transfigured". Conceiving of the 1960's and 1970's as a "time of the sacred" within Iberian cultural production provides an understanding of how the political was imagined under the auspices of an authoritarian regime. It moreover offers a code for disentangling problems that are currently plaguing the peninsula, such as the polemical theorization of a pluralistic Iberia, the always latent specter of violence that underpins debates surrounding such issues as the ethics of bullfighting and the resistance to regional autonomy, and Spain's problematical relationship with the Catholic Church and other forms of religion.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Viestenz, William Ray |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Primary advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Thesis advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | William Viestenz. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by William Ray Viestenz
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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