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THE CONFIGURATION OF THE SPANISH PUBLIC SPHERE

Studies in Latin American and Spanish History

Series Editors:

Scott Eastman, Creighton University, USA

Vicente Sanz Rozaln, Universitat Jaume I, Spain

Editorial Board:

Carlos Illades, Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana, Mexico

Mercedes Yusta, Universit Paris 8, France

Xos Manoel Nez-Seixas, Ludwig-Maximilians Mnchen Universitt, Germany

Dominique Soucy, Universit de Franche-Comt, France

Gabe Paquette, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Karen Racine, University of Guelph, Canada

David Sartorius, University of Maryland, USA

Claudia Guarisco, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent, United Kingdom

This series bridges the divide between studies of Latin America and peninsular Spain by employing transnational and comparative approaches that shed light on the complex societies, cultures, and economies of the modern age. Focusing on the cross-pollination that was the legacy of colonialism on both sides of the Atlantic, these monographs and collections explore a variety of issues such as race, class, gender, and politics in the Spanish-speaking world.

Volume 5

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere: From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

Edited by David Jimnez Torres and Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez

Volume 4

The Brazilian Truth Commission: Local, National and Global Perspectives

Edited by Nina Schneider

Volume 3

Jos Antonio Primo De Rivera: The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader

Joan Maria Thoms

Volume 2

Conflict, Domination, and Violence: Episodes in Mexican Social History

Carlos Illades

Volume 1

Metaphors of Spain: Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Javier Moreno Luzn and Xos M. Nez Seixas

The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

Edited by

David Jimnez Torres and
Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez

First published in 2019 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2019 David Jimnez Torres and Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jimnez Torres, David, 1986- editor. | Villamediana Gonzlez, Leticia, editor.

Title: The configuration of the Spanish public sphere : from the Enlightenment to the indignados / edited by David Jimnez Torres and Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019. | Series: Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; volume 5 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019007905 (print) | LCCN 2019011825 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789202366 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789202359 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Political participation--Spain--History. | Social participation--Spain--History. | Public opinion--Spain--History. | Communication in politics--Spain--History. | Mass media--Political aspects--Spain--History. | Political culture--Spain--History. | Spain--Politics and government. | Spain--Social conditions.

Classification: LCC JN8341 (ebook) | LCC JN8341 .C656 2019 (print) | DDC 323/.0420946--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007905

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78920-235-9 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78920-236-6 ebook

Contents

David Jimnez Torres and Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez

Sally-Ann Kitts

Noelia Garca Daz

Mnica Bolufer Peruga

Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso

Richard Meyer Forsting

Andrew Ginger

Alba Gonzlez Sanz

Stephen G.H. Roberts

Marta Garca Carrin

Francisco Sevillano

Daniel Mourenza

Federico Lpez-Terra

Georgina Blakeley

Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez and David Jimnez Torres

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Introduction

A Spanish Public Sphere?

David Jimnez Torres and Leticia Villamediana Gonzlez

Public opinion has been circulating for many days and even years without a real meaning, it having proved impossible until today to fix one... everyone has understood it in their own way and according to how it may benefit their particular interests and opinions.

La Abeja espaola, 1813

What is the public sphere and how has it operated in Spain from the Enlightenment to the present day? These are the two core questions that drive the focus of this book and of its individual chapters. They are also two questions that are clearly interrelated. How we conceptualise such an ambiguous and multifaceted phenomenon as the public sphere will determine how we chart its presence and historical evolution in the Spanish case. And tracing this presence and evolution will, in turn, throw up empirical data that will help us refine our understanding of the public sphere at a transnational level. Our aim in this introduction is to flesh out the approach that this book takes towards both these issues, and what value this approach has in furthering our understanding of them. Here we will also expand into a number of issues that make the Spanish case interesting to debates over the nature of the public sphere, before foregrounding the content of the rest of the volume.

It is worth pointing out that Spain has a peculiar relationship with the idea of the public sphere. When the German philosopher Jrgen Habermas developed his formulation of this concept, he did so by analysing the historical evolution of three European nations (Great Britain, France and Germany) as well as an American one (the United States). It was there that Habermas observed the rise of the coffee houses, the early periodical press and other forms of communication and sociability that he saw as crucial in the configuration of a bourgeois public sphere. Thus, the most influential account of what the public sphere was (or, more accurately, was meant to be) and how it came about during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Spain out of its empirical framework. When discussing the rise of the bourgeois public sphere, then, leading scholars did not see Spain as an important point of reference. For instance, while Barker and Burrows

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