Agustín García Calvo’s Political Discussion Group in the Ateneo of Madrid

Abstract

Agustín García Calvo thought that Ateneo’s Political Discussion Group was an unusually unique case in the world. In the same way, it could be said that it is unusually unique the inexistence of academic research about an author of his intellectual stature and with so vast works. In this article, I state that, besides being the best way of getting closer to his thinking, the Ateneo’s Political Discussion Group was the nucleus of his life and works. It was also the alternative that he was asked so many times. He preferred offering, instead with words, with facts, in act. Finally, this article also mentions the relationship between the Ateneo’s Political Discussion Group and the 15M Movement’s Free Assembly in the Puerta del Sol and the assemblies of 1965.