The republican subject and the two representations of the king: The monarchy in transition in Julián Marías’ La España real

• Carlos Varón González ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California System

     University of California System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 101, Nº 5-6, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Head and Tails of the Monarch: Representing Kings and Queens in Iberian Cultures, 1975–2020), págs. 677-699
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2024.2336437
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• Resumen

  • Among a number of jurists and military officers, Julián Marías joined thirty-nine senators designated by the King to participate in the formulation of the 1978 Constitution. In his public interventions, collected in La España real, Marías makes the case for the monarchy: the King was to produce the nation he represented and resolve political fragmentation as the head of that nation. At stake was a particular understanding of national representation subservient to neo-liberal modernization, foreshadowing the aesthetic-representational character of the political to secure legitimacy through symbolism and charismatic mobilization.