The nation in antiliberal view. Fatherland and monarchy in the works of Lluís M. de Moixó

Abstract

The political idea of nation is usually understood as a main theoretical field, in which political liberalism developed in the first half of the Nineteenth century. Antiliberalists are thought to have been unable to benefit from any national discourse, since they were deeply dependent on the king and God principles. Against the background of the vexed question of the “weak nationalization” in Nineteenth Century-Spain, this article examines the particular idea of nation proposed by the romantic French writer and politician Chateaubriand in the aftermath of Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, as a way to understand the later works of the Spanish absolutist Lluís M. de Moixó, third baron of Juras Reales, during the last period of King Ferdinand VII and the outbreak of the First Carlist War (1833-1840).