Between Nazism and National Catholicism: reflections on the politics of Heidegger and Manuel García Morente
Abstract
In our time, it is very difficult to ignore the participation that the German thinker Martin Heidegger had with the Nazi regime and politics. Likewise, one cannot ignore the role that Manuel García Morente played in the theoretical and philosophical foundation of a right wing Spanish nationalism and, of course, one cannot leave aside his firm rejection of the republican project, considering it the prelude to the destruction of the being Spanish and Hispanic as a whole. Both thinkers, with some points in common regarding their diagnosis of the state of the modern world, deployed their philosophies to put them at the service of German fascism and the Franco dictatorship. The present study exposes the political links of these two thinkers with the far right movements of their historical moment, but also exposes the points in which their philosophies connect them with anti-Semitism, Falangism and National Catholicism.
Downloads
Article download
Crossmark
License
In order to support the global exchange of knowledge, the journal Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas is allowing unrestricted access to its content as from its publication in this electronic edition, and as such it is an open-access journal. The originals published in this journal are the property of the Complutense University of Madrid and any reproduction thereof in full or in part must cite the source. All content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 use and distribution licence (CC BY 4.0). This circumstance must be expressly stated in these terms where necessary. You can view the summary and the complete legal text of the licence.
