La emigración republicana española y el pensamiento alemán en México: la traducción de Economía y sociedad

Abstract

In the article, the author analyzes the role played by the Spanish Republican immigrants in Mexico, translating and broadcasting the work of Max Weber and German thinking in Mexico. She particularly refers to the titanic task of translating Economía y sociedad, Max Weber’s magnus opus, recently considered by the International Association of Sociology as the 20th Century’s most important book. Likewise, she points out the conditions and background that made this possible and shows that the publication of this and other classical books on sociology was possible thanks to the exceptional intellectual collaboration established between the Spanish refugees immigrating to Mexico, when Franco rose to power and the Fondo de Cultura Económica’s publishing the works of the main European authors of the Hispanic world. The result of these joint efforts gave rise to a sort of Mexican