José J. Jiménez Sánchez, Hegel contra Schmitt: sobre los fundamentos de un Estado imparcial desde un punto de vista nacional: Madrid, Iustel, 2026, 193 pp

Abstract

José Joaquín Jiménez Sánchez, tenured professor in the Department of Philosophy of Law at the University of Granada and member of the Forum for Civil Concord, has demonstrated throughout his long academic career a marked interest in the German world—with particular attention to Hegel, Carl Schmitt, and Jürgen Habermas—and in subjects such as: the social question and law in 19th-century Spain—the topic of his doctoral dissertation—, democracy, sovereignty, human rights, public opinion, the Spanish Constitution, the democratic rule of law, the crisis of the nation-state, nationalism, populism, and political education.

Seeking to illuminate the current crisis of liberal-democratic societies, it will attempt to clarify, amidst the existing conceptual muddle on our legal and political regime, which each group interprets to its own advantage, and to rethink the foundations of our political coexistence in order to rebuild our rule of law to correct the failures committed in the application of the liberal system and find an organizing criterion that helps to answer questions such as: Is the 1978 Constitution still in force?