Ethical Life's Emergence : Hegel and the Teleology of Legal Culture(s) in Twentieth-Century Spain

This study delves into the interwar background of the so-called new democratic patriotism in post-Francoist Spain. Firstly, we centre on the legal philosopher Elías Díaz's arguments regarding Spanish natural law tradition. Secondly, intellectual history roots pertinent in this regard are addressed by delving into the Revista de Occidente circle's pre-Civil War cultural transfer. Thirdly, by analysing more deeply its corresponding resemanticizations, this study explains how the 1930s Hegel transfer in Spain laid the groundwork for a left- and a right-Hegelian legal sociology concept. We contend that the persistence of this ambivalent legal sociology notion in Spain has politicized academic and public debate in organic emergence theory terms to this day.