Eugenio Trías's reading of Joan Maragall: from civil Catalunya-ciutat to postcivil Catalunya-estat

• Edgar Illas ^[1]
  1. [1] Department of Spanish and Portuguese , Indiana University
• Localización: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ISSN 1463-6204, ISSN-e 1469-9818, Vol. 13, Nº. 4, 2012, págs. 323-338
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines Eugenio Trías's reading of the esthetics and politics of Joan Maragall. Trías uses Maragall as an occasion to articulate his theory of a Catalan civil society based on the figure of Catalunya-ciutat. My text traces the main components of this articulation and relates them to two general problematics: the contemporary withering of civil society, and the ontology of being. I pay special attention to Trías's identification of Maragall's opposition between homeland and city with Martin Heidegger's distinction between Earth and World. My general hypothesis is that the civil society of Catalunya-ciutat is no longer a viable social project and must be replaced by the postcivil design of Catalunya-estat.