La revolución española según Joaquín Costa: un concepto entre la historia, la política y el derecho

Abstract

In this article, we offer an approach to the concept of revolution in Joaquín Costa’s political philosophy, through the texts he wrote between 1868 and 1875. In first place, we try to show the relations and the differences that exist in the aragonese’s philosophical thought between revolution and regeneration. This distinction is essential to denounce and avoid the reduction that the classical historiography has done –not just about the term regenerationism–, but also of the proposals to this subject written by “El León de Graus”. Later, we focus on his own perspective of Spain’s history starting since the liberal revolution, analyzing his Phd dissertation and the articles that form the book Historia crítica de la revolución española (1808-1823). Finallly, we expose the particularities that Costa gave to the concept of revolution, showing that it isn’t a different process compared to the regeneration, but that they are intrinsically connected  and that the revolution brings into it the basic element to complete the proyect of creating a new society.