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José María Marco
Born1955 Edit this on Wikidata
Madrid Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, essayist, columnist, opinion writer, journalist, university teacher, editing staff, translator Edit this on Wikidata
Position heldassociate professor Edit this on Wikidata

José María Marco Tobarra (born 1955) is a Spanish professor, writer and liberal-conservative opinion journalist.

Biography

He was born in 1955 in Madrid where he attended French and Spanish pre-university studies at the Lycée Français de Madrid. .[1]. In 1972, after studying Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, he obtained a licentiate degree in Hispanic Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Literature in the later university. After studying Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, he obtained a licentiate degree in Hispanic Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Literature in the later university. He then worked as an Associate Lecturer for pre-university studies (Bachillerato, in Spain) between 1982 and 1986 at various secondary schools in Madrid. In 1996 he joined Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (UPCO / ICADE), where he formed part of the team that created the first Spanish University Degree in International Relations and taught a diverse range of subjects as an associate professor, including the following: “The History of Political Ideas”; “Introduction to Spanish Foreign Policy”, “The Theory and Practice of Translation” or “Spanish Language and Literature”. In 2004-2005 he worked as a researcher at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.

Personal life and politics

José María Marco is a Catholic. He was a member of PSOE and UGT between 1983 and 1989. He contested the April 2019 Senate election in Madrid as candidate of the far-right Vox, commanding 610,601 votes, short of the 957,626 votes obtained by the last elected senator. He also ran second in the party list for the 26 May 2019 Madrilenian regional election, and, thus, he was elected member of the regional legislature, as Vox obtained 12 out of the 132 seats up for election.[2] [3]. However, Marco refused to assume the parliamentary seat before the inaugural session of the new legislative term allegedly because of "health motives". [4] [5] Since then, he has not been linked to any political organisation or party. He is openly homosexual. [6] He is openly homosexual.[6]

Thought

José María Marco’s study of the history of Spanish political and intellectual life around the time of the crisis of 1898 and leading up to the Second Republic has led him to adopt a critical stance regarding nationalism, especially Spanish nationalism. In his opinion, nationalism, born in the late years of the 19th century, sought to destroy the liberal nation and build a -necessarily exclusivist- nation based on race, language and culture. Nationalism, thus, would be one of the characteristic “political or secular religions” of the twentieth century. His work often features and comments on this ideology. He advocates for "giving moral and civic content to the liberal doctrinary corpus"[7]

Marco has also collaborated in conservative think tanks such as FAES (Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis) -where he has served as Member of the Advisory Board and patron up until 2018-, FIL and the "Floridablanca Network’’.


Professional life

A contributor to media outlets such as La Razón, La Ilustración Liberal and Libertad Digital (of which he is a founding member),[8] Marco has contributed also to El Mundo, El País, Revista de Occidente or COPE. He collaborates with specialised publications such as Ópera Actual, or, along with Nuria Richart, the interview program ‘’Libros con Marco’’ (‘’Books with Marco’’).

Also in the mediatic environment, he has held managerial positions: as a Member of the Management Board of ABC and the Editorial Board of La Gaceta de los Negocios, Secretary of the Editorial Boards of the magazines Dezine (1979-1981) and La Ilustración Liberal (1999-2000), as well as patron (up to 2018) and Member of the Advisory Board in FAES.

He collaborated with the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security in drafting an analysis of labor reform (Una nación reforzada. La recuperación y la nueva cultura del trabajo, 2016).

In his academic life, he has imparted courses and delivered conferences at Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala) / Liberty Fund, University of Wyoming, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Menéndez Pelayo, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía and Universidad de Barcelona.

As to his business career, he was founding partner of Linguasur (Language Academy) (1990-1993), SIRK Translations (Translation Agency) (1993), and Libertad Digital (1999).


Works

Author
  • — (1988). Inteligencia republicana: Manuel Azaña 1897–1930. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. La inteligencia republicana studied Azaña’s republicanism, and is part of Marco’s study on this historical figure, completed with another book, La creación de sí mismo (Biblioteca Nueva, 1990) which explored the way in which Azaña invented himself through his literary and political work, and Marco’s doctoral thesis, Creación literaria y literatura autobiográfica en Manuel Azaña (“Literary Creation and Autobiographical Literature in Manuel Azaña”). In these works, Marco maintains a critical perspective on Azaña’s legacy, whom he considers as the head of a regime only fit for the political left.
  • — (1990). Azaña (A biography). Madrid: Mondadori.[9]Marco wrote also Azaña. Una pasión española (Theatre play) in collaboration with José Luis Gómez, a work premièred by the last at Teatro María Guerrero (Centro Dramático Nacional, Madrid) (1990)[9].
  • {{Cite book|author=José María Marco|author-mask=1|title=Viaje de California: Pre-Textos. This brief diary opens a reflection on homosexuality that will continue throughout Marco’s work (1991)
  • — (1997). La libertad traicionada. Barcelona: Planeta.This book is centered on Spain’s Generation of ‘98 (Joaquín Costa, Ángel Ganivet, Enric Prat de la Riva, Miguel de Unamuno, Ramiro de Maeztu) and Generation of 1914 (Azaña and José Ortega y Gasset). It proposed a new way of understanding the history of Spanish intellectual life, from a critical prism, in which he affirms that those intellectual leaders in times of the “Disaster” of ’98 were responsible for the destruction of the Constitutional Monarchy and the failure to democratize the liberal system.[10]
  • — (2007). La nueva revolución americana. Madrid: Editorial Ciudadela.[11][1]
  • — (2011). Una historia patriótica de España. Planeta.[12]
  • — (2013). Maura. La política pura. Madrid: Gota a Gota.[13]
  • — (2015). Sueño y destrucción de España. Los nacionalistas españoles (1898–2015). Planeta.[14][15]
  • — (2019). Diez Razones para amar a España. Madrid: Arzalia.[16]
  • — (2019). El verdadero amante. Lope de Vega y el amor. Madrid: Ediciones Insólitas.[17]
Coordinator
  • Marco, José María (Coord.) (1998). Genealogía del liberalismo español, 1759–1931. Madrid: FAES.

References

  1. ^ a b Núñez Florencio, Rafael (10 February 2012). "Una historia patriótica de España". El Cultural.
  2. ^ "El escritor José María Marco será el candidato de VOX al Senado por Madrid". La Vanguardia. 17 March 2019.
  3. ^ Junta Electoral Central: "Resolución de 24 de mayo de 2019, de la Presidencia de la Junta Electoral Central, por la que se publica el resumen de los resultados de las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado convocadas por Real Decreto 129/2019, de 4 de marzo, y celebradas el 28 de abril de 2019, conforme a las actas de escrutinio general y de proclamación de electos remitidas por las correspondientes Juntas Electorales Provinciales y por las Juntas Electorales de Ceuta y de Melilla" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (129): 57340–57424. 30 May 2019. ISSN 0212-033X.
  4. ^ "Dimite el número dos de Vox en la Comunidad de Madrid "por motivos de salud"". eldiario.es. 5 June 2016.
  5. ^ "El número dos de la candidatura de Vox renuncia a su escaño en la Asamblea". La Vanguardia. 5 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b Pina, Marina (30 March 2019). "José María Marco, candidato de Vox: "El matrimonio homosexual es cuestión de dignidad"". El Mundo.
  7. ^ Carmona, Pablo; García, Beatriz; Sánchez, Almudena (2012). "Spanish Neocon. La revuelta neoconservadora en la derecha española" (PDF). Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños: 28–29. ISBN 978-84-96453-66-1. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Roma, Brais (17 March 2019). "El escritor José María Marco, candidato de Vox al Senado por Madrid". El Español.
  9. ^ a b Avilés Farré, Juan (1991). "En torno a Azaña" (6). Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco: 279–283. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ Núñez Florencio, Rafael (1 August 1997). "La crisis española del siglo XX". Revista de Libros (7–8). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  11. ^ Pastor, Manuel (2007). "Una historia patriótica de España" (PDF). Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Madrid: FAES: 220–222. ISSN 1696-8441.
  12. ^ Quintanilla Navarro, Miguel Ángel (2012). "Una historia patriótica de España" (PDF). Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Madrid: FAES: 225–227. ISSN 1696-8441.
  13. ^ Ruiz-Manjón, Octavio (16 April 2014). "La formación de una clase política". Revista de Libros.
  14. ^ Sáenz-Francés San Baldomero, Emilio (2015). "Sueño y destrucción de España. Los nacionalistas españoles (1898–2015)". Comillas Journal of International Relations (4). Universidad Pontificia Comillas: 110–111. ISSN 2386-5776.
  15. ^ Castro, Demetrio (7 December 2015). "La nación y sus circunstancias". Revista de Libros.
  16. ^ "José María Marco renuncia a su escaño por VOX en la Asamblea de Madrid por motivos de salud". Getafe Diario. 5 June 2019.
  17. ^ "José María Marco descubre 'El verdadero amante' que hay detrás de Lope de Vega". Libertad Digital. 30 April 2019.
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