TheManifesto Against the Death of the Spirit and the Earth (Spanish:Manifiesto contra la Muerte del Espíritu y de la Tierra) was a text published in the Spanish magazineEl Cultural on 19 June 2002.[1][n. 1] Coauthored byÁlvaro Mutis andJavier Ruiz Portella and described as an initiative to promote the ideas of theNouvelle Droite, the text decried the "disenchantment of the world" and the "annihilation of the spirit's life", with the authors worried about "the disappearance of that breath by which men affirm themselves as men and not only as organic entities".[2]
The endorsements overcame a mere new-rightist profile, being actually ideologically transversal, with supporting intellectuals coming from both the left and right.[3] The endorsers linked to the New Right, most often partakers of initiatives such as theProyecto Cultural Aurora [es] orHespérides andNihil Obstat; namelyAbel Posse,Aquilino Duque,Fernando Sánchez Dragó,Isidro Juan Palacios andJosé Javier Esparza became the coalescing nucleus around which theGrupo Manifiesto was formed.[4]
Originally inSpanish, from 2002 to 2004 the manifesto was translated toArabic,Catalan,English,Italian andFrench.[4]
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