La aufklarung conservadora: pensamiento espanol de Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

In: Revista de estudios políticos, Heft 138, S. 11-65

Abstract

From the 60's, Spanish society underwent qualitative changes in its socioeconomic structure, albeit still affected by the religious & cultural repercussions of the Civil War. This helped to discredit the doctrinal foundations of the regime that had prevailed since the Civil War. The work of Fernandez de la Mora was an attempt to draw up a new set of doctrines for the Spanish right. Their historical importance, in our opinion, is rooted in their ability to apply a new kind of conservatism based on verificable criteria of empirical character & on aims of economic development in order to have an intellectual base from which to make the necessary shift away from a discredited counter-revolutionary traditional perspective. This led to a project of conservative modernization or Aufklarung. His work as a critic of the Spanish contemporary thought thus forms an essential part of that project, since it provided an attempt at intellectual reform to accompany the mainly economic modernization of the time. References. Adapted from the source document.