On dying lights: some considerations on the intellectual history of Spanish culture

Abstract

Raimundo Cuesta's latest book, Unamuno, Azaña y Ortega, tres luciérnagas en el ruedo ibérico, explores and delves into the defeat (in the double sense of the term) of the Spanish intelligentsia during the convulsive period of the so-called "European civil war" (1914-1945), through three of its most conspicuous figures. In the context of this timely, rigorous and original work of critical, social and cultural history, some considerations are raised which, also from a non-androcentric critical perspective, could be projected on the trajectory and legacy of these three agonic luminaries at the tragic crossroads they had to live through.