Rafael Calvo Serer (born 6 October 1916 at

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, died 19 April 1988 at

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, Spain) was a Professor of History of Spanish Philosophy, a

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ist. He was president of the Council of Administration of the newspaper ''Madrid'', in which he published numerous articles on

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and international politics. In 1949 he obtained the National Award for Literature for his work ''España sin problema''. His main works are: ''España sin problema'' (1949), ''El fin de la época de las revoluciones'' (1949), ''Teoría de la restauración'' (1952), ''La configuración del futuro'' (1953), ''Política de integración'' (1955), ''La aproximación de los neoliberales à la actitud tradicional'' (1956), ''La fuerza creadora de la libertad'' (1958), ''Nuevas formas democráticas de la libertad'' (1960), ''La literatura universal sobre la guerra de España'' (1962), ''La Política mundial de los Estados Unidos'' (1962), ''Las nuevas democracias'' (1964).

References

*''Diccionario Biográfico Español Contemporáneo'', Círculo de Amigos de la Historia, Madrid 1970, vol. 1, p. 361.

External links

Rafael Calvo Serer in ''Proyecto Filosofía en español''
1916 births 1988 deaths Spanish essayists Spanish male writers Opus Dei members Male essayists 20th-century essayists {{Spain-writer-stub