Francisco Giner de Los Rios: A Spanish Socrates

by Solomon Lipp

During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo was threatened by Krausism, an idealistic doctrine of universal harmony and rational freedom. In the ensuing culture clash, Francisco Giner de los Rios (1839-1915), a leading exponent of Krausist thought, provided the dominant influence on Spanish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155458518X
• ISBN13: 9781554585182
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 160 Pages