A Reading of Heidegger in francoist Spain. The case of Manuel Sacristán

Authors

  • María Francisca Fernández
Keywords: Existentialism, Marxism, Positivism, Sociology of Philosophy

Abstract

With the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the Catholic-Thomist philosophy is institutionalized in Spain. This anti-modernistic philosophy stream reclaimed Heidegger as a deep and systematic thinker who was against the Orteguian philosophy, suspiciously rationalist and agnostic. Manuel Sacristán, a young Orteguian Falangist, who affiliates the Spanish Communist Party in 1956, would develop a doctoral thesis criticizing Heidegger between 1954 and 1958. This young man, who during the sixties would become a model for the Spanish left wing, considered the philosophy of the thinker from Messkirch as a direct attack to the rational thinking and criticized Heidegger’s gnoseologic principles and his etymologizing methodology in his thesis. The present article addresses this not only deep and interesting reading, but also little known nowadays, about the reception of Heidegger in Spain.

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Fernández, M. F. (2013). A Reading of Heidegger in francoist Spain. The case of Manuel Sacristán. Historical Sociology, (2), 73–110. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/sh/article/view/188941
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Monográfico. Sociología de la producción intelectual en España y Francia (1940-1990)