By the Grace of God

William Viestenz is an assistant professor of Spanish and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

• Acknowledegments1. Introduction: La EspaÑa Sagrada as a Political CategoryFrancoist Spain, Post-Secularism, and a Sacred Politics The Sacred’s Slippage into the ProfaneThe Sacred and MetaphysicsSpain’s ‘Time of the Sacred’: Literature as a Political MatterIberian Studies: A Parallax View2. ‘He aquÍ una plenitud espaÑola’: Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish EssentialismPor Dios hacia el imperio: Spanish First CausesNineteenth-Century Spain: Cuando la legalidad no bastaSpanish Regenerationism: Displacing the Sacred onto the SecularCatholicism as a Social Force: 19363. Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective ImaginingPost-War StimmungThe Scapegoat Mechanism and the Mimetic Reduction of DifferenceBeyond the Victimary Principle4. Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo’s Sovereign ExceptionAgainst Sacred FormsConde JuliÁn’s Inclusive ExclusionHuman, All Too HumanA New Nomos of the Earth?5. The Eternal Present of Sacred Time‘In illo tempore’Numa’s Sacred WoodKilling Time: Ritual Death and the Origins of the Sacred6. ‘Desacralization’ and ‘Sacrogenesis’, or How to Step Outside of Sacred TimeSacred DialecticsLe regard d’autrui: The State’s Loving EmbraceRerouting Sacred Time: Tiempo de destrucciÓn7. Espriu’s Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred SovereigntySacrifice and the Poetic Expulsion of SelfThe Sacred Bonds of KinshipDeath by Way of the Pen: Les horesEspriu’s kehre: El caminant i el mur&Final del laberint: Redeeming a Lost ReligiousnessRethinking Iberia: A New Temple of Sacred Communion8. Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political TruthWorks CitedIndex