By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination - Rilegato

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Viestenz, William

 
9781442647572: By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination
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ISBN 10: 1442647574 ISBN 13: 9781442647572
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2014

Sinossi

Though neither king nor priest, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco nevertheless conceptualized his right to sovereignty around a political theology in which national identity resembled a sacred cult. Using Franco’s Spain and la España sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity’s own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.

William Viestenz shows how imagining national identity as a sacred absolute within a pluralistic, multicultural state leads to dictatorship, scapegoating, and exceptional violence. Using novels and poetry from the Catalan literary tradition and stalwarts of the Castilian canon, his analysis demonstrates that the sacred is a concept that spills over into key areas of secular political imagination.

By the Grace of God offers an original theory of the sacred that challenges our understanding of twentieth-century political thought.

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Informazioni sull'autore

William Viestenz is an assistant professor of Spanish and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1442647574
ISBN 13 
9781442647572
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
223
Contatto del produttore
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