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José María Marco Tobarra
Born1955
Madrid, España
OccupationLecturer, columnist and essayist
LanguageSpanish
NationalitySpanish
EducationLycée Français de Madrid, Paris Nanterre University, Université Paris-VIII and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
Website
www.josemariamarco.com

José María Marco (Madrid, 1955) is a Spanish intellectual, lecturer and columnist. He has worked in the fields of biography, essay writing and journalism.

Biography

José María Marco was born in 1955 in Madrid.[1], where he attended French and Spanish pre-university studies at the Lycée Français de Madrid. 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.[2]

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[3], 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 is openly homosexual [4]. He was a member of PSOE and UGT between 1983 and 1989 [5].

He contested the April 2019 Senate election in Madrid as candidate of Vox,[6] commanding 610,601 votes, falling behind the last elected senator [7].

He also ran second in the party list for the 26 May 2019 Madrilenian regional election,[6] and, thus, he was elected member of the regional legislature, as Vox obtained 12 out of the 132 seats up for election. However, Marco refused to assume the parliamentary seat before the inaugural session of the new legislative term, [8] allegedly because of health motives.[9] Since then, he has not been linked to any political organisation or party.

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 XIXth 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".[10] Marco has also colaborated 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-, International Foundation for Liberty and the "Floridablanca Network’’ [3].

Professional life

He is a contributor to a considerable number of media outlets, such as La Razón, La Ilustración Liberal and Libertad Digital (of which he is a founding member) [11], El Mundo, El País, Revista de Occidente or COPE, as well as specialised publications such as ‘’Ópera Actual’’, Revista de Libros or, along with Nuria Richart, the radio 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 labour 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) and SIRK Translations (Translation Agency) (1993), and Libertad Digital (1999).

Selected works

Author

— (1988). Inteligencia republicana: Manuel Azaña 1897–1930. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.[12]. 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 (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 an intolerant and anti-liberal regime only fit for the political left.

— (1990). Azaña. Madrid: Mondadori.[12].

— (1997). La libertad traicionada. Siete ensayos españoles. Costa, Ganivet, Prat de la Riba, Unamuno, Maeztu, Azaña, Ortega y Gasset. Barcelona: Planeta.[13]. This book is centered around 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 democratise the liberal system.

— (2001). Francisco Giner de los Ríos. Poder, estética y pedagogía’’. Madrid: Editorial Ciudadela.. José María Marco’s line of historical revisionism continued with a biography on Francisco Giner de los Ríos (an heir to the Krausist legacy, ideologue of the Revolution of 1868 and founder of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza -The Free Education Institution-) where he analyses his work and legacy and tells how, in his opinion, it directly inspired the radicalism of the Second Republic. — (2007). La nueva revolución americana. Madrid: Editorial Ciudadela. [14][1]. A research stay at Georgetown University (Washington D.C.) in 2004-2005 led to this study of the US Conservative movement. “The New American Revolution” covers the period beginning with the broken post-war consensus in the 1960’s and stretches up to the early years of the twenty-first century.

— (2011). Una historia patriótica de España. Planeta.[15]. The central theme in this work is the differentiation between nationalism and patriotism. Marco offers a definition of the latter as a civic virtue based on a love of one’s country as it is (and not as we would like it to be) and a basis of the liberal and pluralist democracies. It also proposes an integrating vision of Spain as a plural, open and European country [16] [17].

— (2013). Maura. La política pura. Madrid: Gota a Gota.[18]. A biography of the politician Antonio Maura, in which Marco presents how Maura sought to turn the Conservative Party into a modern party of mass appeal, one that might seek to democratise Spanish liberalism. Marco thinks that this project dissipated when he was manoeuvred out of power.

— (2015). Sueño y destrucción de España. Los nacionalistas españoles (1898–2015). Planeta.[19][20]. The line of research concerning Giner de los Ríos culminated with Sueño y destrucción de España (“Dream and Destruction in Spain”) (2015), a study on Spanish nationalism in the twentieth century (up until 2015). The book explores the nationalist roots of regenerationism (which was the name given to Spanish nationalism) and the wave of critics in 1898 and after 1898. Marco writes that nationalism desired to destroy the liberal nation, and thinks that we can find in that the origins of some problems of late XX century Spain, such as the difficulties for achieving wide-ranging pacts regarding the nation circa 1978, the nationalist terrorism of ETA, or the nationalist tensions in Catalonia. In his study, Marco affirms that Spaniards, and particularly his elites, have a negative opinion of their country, and tries to explain this phenomenon.[21][22]

— (2019). Diez Razones para amar a España. Madrid: Arzalia. [23]. In Diez razones para amar España (‘’Ten reasons to love Spain’’) Marco offers readers ten arguments in favour of patriotism, focusing on society (with a chapter entitled “Us”), music, literature, language, the Crown, religion, the Americas, the landscape and painting.

— (2019). El verdadero amante. Lope de Vega y el amor. Madrid: Ediciones Insólitas.. José María Marco returns here to literary studies with a book devoted to the theme of love in the work of Lope de Vega.[24] El verdadero amante seeks to clarify the meaning of love in his work and his conception of the world, as well as the role that love has to play in his literary creations.

— (2020). La hora de España. Una afirmación liberal conservadora. Barcelona: Deusto.. José María Marco edited, together with Jorge Martín Frías, this compilation of essays (“Spain’s Moment: A Liberal Conservative Affirmation”). Almost twenty authors offer a range of different perspectives - within the realms of culture, politics, economics, and Europe – in order to once again consider the prospect of a divided and crisis-ridden Centre-Right.

Books as coordinator

— (1998). Genealogía del liberalismo español, 1759–1931 (Translation into English: The Genealogy of Spanish Liberalism, 1759-1931). Madrid: FAES.

Others
  • Manuel Azaña. Catalogue for the Ministry of Culture Exhibition (1990).
  • Azaña. Memoria gráfica. 1880-1940 (Fundación Colegio del Rey, 1990) (with Vicente Alberto Serrano).
  • Azaña. Una pasión española (Theater play) in collaboration with José Luis Gómez, a work premièred by the last at Teatro María Guerrero (Centro Dramático Nacional) (1990).

References

  1. ^ a b Núñez Florencio, Rafael (10 February 2012). "Una historia patriótica de España". El Cultural.
  2. ^ "El número dos de la candidatura de Vox renuncia a su escaño en la Asamblea". La Vanguardia. 5 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "El escritor José María Marco será el candidato de VOX al Senado por Madrid". La Vanguardia. 17 March 2019.
  4. ^ Pina, Marina (30 March 2019). "José María Marco, candidato de Vox: "El matrimonio homosexual es cuestión de dignidad"". El Mundo.
  5. ^ ""El escritor José María Marco será el candidato de VOX al Senado por Madrid"". La Vanguardia. 17 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b González, Miguel. "Vox presenta a Monasterio y Ortega Smith para Madrid". El País.
  7. ^ Menéndez Pérez, Segundo (24 May 2019). Central, Junta Electoral (ed.). ""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). Boletín Oficial del Estado: 57340–57424. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. ^ ""El número dos de la candidatura de Vox renuncia a su escaño en la Asamblea"". La Vanguardia. 5 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Dimite el número dos de Vox en la Comunidad de Madrid "por motivos de salud"". eldiario.es. 5 June 2016.
  10. ^ 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)
  11. ^ Roma, Brais (17 March 2019). "El escritor José María Marco, candidato de Vox al Senado por Madrid". El Español.
  12. ^ 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)
  13. ^ 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)
  14. ^ Pastor, Manuel (2007). "Una historia patriótica de España" (PDF). Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Madrid: FAES: 220–222. ISSN 1696-8441.
  15. ^ Quintanilla Navarro, Miguel Ángel (2012). "Una historia patriótica de España" (PDF). Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. Madrid: FAES: 225–227. ISSN 1696-8441.
  16. ^ Juan Francisco Carmona, “El patriota veraz”, The New York Times, 8 February 2012
  17. ^ Manuel Pastor, "Una historia patriótica de España", ‘’ Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político’’. Madrid: FAES: 220–222. ISSN 1696-8441, 2007
  18. ^ Ruiz-Manjón, Octavio (16 April 2014). "La formación de una clase política". Revista de Libros.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Castro, Demetrio (7 December 2015). "La nación y sus circunstancias". Revista de Libros.
  21. ^ Albiac, Gabriel (13 October 2008). La Razón https://www.josemariamarco.com/historia/giner/de-santos-y-malhechores/. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ Delibes, Alicia (26 August 2002). "El mito Giner de los Ríos". Libertad Digital.
  23. ^ "José María Marco renuncia a su escaño por VOX en la Asamblea de Madrid por motivos de salud". Getafe Diario. 5 June 2019.
  24. ^ "José María Marco descubre 'El verdadero amante' que hay detrás de Lope de Vega". Libertad Digital. 30 April 2019.

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