{"product_id":"quixotism-the-imaginative-denial-of-spains-loss-of-empire-latin-american-and-iberian-thought-and-culture-9780791462560","title":"Quixotism The Imaginative Denial of Spains Loss","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuixotism explores how a group of Spanish intellectuals, writing during the time of Restoration Spain (1876?1931), incorporated the figure of Don Quixote into an on-going debate on Spanish national and imperial decadence and used this figure to promote a nationalistic and jingoistic formula for national-imperial regeneration. Commonly known as the Generation of ''98, these writers turned Spain''s military defeat at the hands of an emerging American empire into a moral victory. Christopher Britt Arredondo uses the term Quixotism to denote a premodern heroic ideal centered on the figure of Don Quixote as he explores these writers. Here, he shows how Ganivet turns Quixote into a spiritual conquistador; Unamuno, into a tragic messiah; Maeztu, into a smiling priest; and Ortega, into a paternalistic master. Quixotism is a new critical category of political and cultural relevance, not only for fin-de-siècle Spain and the National-Catholic Spain of the Franco era, but also the democratic, postmodern Spain of today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038169268567,"sku":"9780791462560","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quixotism-the-imaginative-denial-of-spains-loss-of-empire-latin-american-and-iberian-thought-and-culture-9780791462560","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}