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| Born | Juan Donoso Cortés 6 May 1809 Valle de la Serena, Spain |
| Died | 3 May 1853 (aged 43) Paris, France |
| Occupation | politician, diplomat, writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Genres | Conservatism, Counter-Enlightenment |
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Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas (May 6, 1809 – May 3, 1853), Spanish author and diplomatist, was born at Valle de la Serena (Extremadura).
Biography
He studied law at Seville, and entered politics as an advanced liberal under the influence of Quintana. His views began to modify after the rising at La Granja, and this tendency towards conservatism, which became more marked on his appointment as private secretary to the Queen Regent, finds expression in his Lecciones de derecho politico (1837).
Alarmed by the proceedings of the French revolutionary party in 1848–1849, Donoso Cortés issued his Ensayo sobre el catolicismo, el liberalismo, y el socialismo considerados en sus principios fundamentales (1851), denouncing free discussion as the enemy of truth and liberalism as leading to social ruin. He became ambassador at Paris, and died there on the 3rd of May 1853.
The Ensayo failed to arrest the movement against which it was directed, but, it remains amongst the finest specimen of political prose published in Spain during the 19th century.
Donoso Cortés's works were collected in five volumes at Madrid (1854–1855) under the editorship of Gavino Tejado.
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Influence
In his Political Theology (1922), political philosopher Carl Schmitt devotes large portions of his final chapter ("On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State") to Donoso Cortés, praising him for recognizing the importance of the decision and of the concept of sovereignty.[1]
References
- ^ Schmitt, Carl (2005). Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press. pp. 51-66. ISBN 0226738892.
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