Abstract

LEON IGLESIAS, Juana Marta. Ethics and politics in the thought about culture of Raúl Roa Garcia (1940-1958). Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.4, pp. 390-398.  Epub Aug 02, 2020. ISSN 2218-3620.

This article aims to assess the thought around the culture of Raúl Roa García between 1940 and 1958. This was a time marked by the social readjustments after the Revolution of 30, the democratic experience of the “authentic” governments, the affirmation of nationalism in the artistic and literary field; and the controversies surrounding the essences of Cuban culture and the social role of the intellectual. In these debates the conceptions of Raúl Roa are inserted, who during this period served as university professor and occupied, between 1949 and 1951, the Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of Education. The analysis of Roa's texts reveals that his reflections on culture are closely linked to his political thinking, and both are crossed by an ethical and humanistic dimension, which emerges in his criteria regarding the popular nature of culture, the need to democratize it, and the relationship between culture, freedom and social justice, as well as in favor of the social commitment of the intelligentsia and in rejection of the neutrality and apoliticism of the culture. This is an intellectual who linked theoretical production to revolutionary practice, so this study aims to contribute to the knowledge of the Cuban tradition of fusion between thought and action, from the work of one of his most conspicuous thinkers of the twentieth century.

Keywords : Ethics; politics; cultural thought.

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