From the Granada School to the Clan Mudéjar: Academic survival and intellectual turn of Fernando de los Ríos’ disciples during the First Francoism (1936-1953)

Abstract

Since the beginning of Spanish Civil War, rebels undertake the depuration of numerous republican or innovative intellectuals, interrupting the Silver Age of Spanish culture. Nevertheless, Francoist dictatorship cannot eradicate the previous intellectual tradition. It survived in most of reprisal intellectuals’ disciples, hidden under their adherence to Francoist State. The article analyses the relationship between intellectuals and the dictatorship, from the trajectories of Enrique Gómez Arboleya and Nicolás Ramiro Rico, Fernando de los Ríos’ disciples. They take helpful positions to the dictatorship, involved in academic nets created in the War or the Post-war, contributed to build the Francoist legal culture and unlink to their master, though kept a part of De los Ríos’ intellectual and scientific heritage and his sociological vocation and distanced from the dictatorship in 1950s. The study is based on the analysis of their works and access exams as professors of Legal Philosophy, Political Law and Sociology since 1940 to 1953.