Acknowledegments
1. Introduction: La España Sagrada as a Political Category
Francoist Spain, Post-Secularism, and a Sacred Politics The Sacred’s Slippage into the Profane
The Sacred and Metaphysics
Spain’s ‘Time of the Sacred’: Literature as a Political Matter
Iberian Studies: A Parallax View
2. ‘He aquí una plenitud española’: Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism
Por Dios hacia el imperio: Spanish First Causes
Nineteenth-Century Spain: Cuando la legalidad no basta
Spanish Regenerationism: Displacing the Sacred onto the Secular
Catholicism as a Social Force: 1936
3. Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining
Post-War Stimmung
The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Mimetic Reduction of Difference
Beyond the Victimary Principle
4. Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo’s Sovereign Exception
Against Sacred Forms
Conde Julián’s Inclusive Exclusion
Human, All Too Human
A New Nomos of the Earth?
5. The Eternal Present of Sacred Time
‘In illo tempore’
Numa’s Sacred Wood
Killing Time: Ritual Death and the Origins of the Sacred
6. ‘Desacralization’ and ‘Sacrogenesis’, or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time
Sacred Dialectics
Le regard d’autrui: The State’s Loving Embrace
Rerouting Sacred Time: Tiempo de destrucción
7. Espriu’s Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty
Sacrifice and the Poetic Expulsion of Self
The Sacred Bonds of Kinship
Death by Way of the Pen: Les hores
Espriu’s kehre: El caminant i el mur&
Final del laberint: Redeeming a Lost Religiousness
Rethinking Iberia: A New Temple of Sacred Communion
8. Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth
Works Cited
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