Two interpretations of Fascism: Ortega y Gasset and María Zambrano

Abstract

An approximation appears to the interpretations of fascism of Ortega y Gasset and María Zambrano, as divergent as his respective conceptions of liberalism and, definitively, politics. In the case of Ortega, fascism would be a concretion of the revolt of the masses, aggressive towards the culture and the liberal institutions. In the case of Zambrano, it would identify with the nihilism and the regression to the myth, as conclusion of a process established in the heart of the Modernity and even the western reason. Both interpretations are discerned in the complex horizon of the relations of continuity and break-up, kind of knowledge shared by teachers and disciples