By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination (Toronto Iberic Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 54 von 74: Toronto Iberic

Viestenz, William R.

 
9781442647572: By the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination (Toronto Iberic Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1442647574 ISBN 13: 9781442647572
Verlag: UNIV OF TORONTO PR, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
UNIV OF TORONTO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1442647574
ISBN 13 
9781442647572
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
223
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