Retorno al mito auténtico: la idea de lo jurídico en Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Abstract

It is presented in this text an interpretation of the idea of the juridical in Nicolás Gómez Dávila in the unit of his fragmentary work published between 1954 and 1995. A relation is established between his reactionary thinking and his juridical theory published in 1988 in the essay De iure; relation preceded by a study, through the Western mythology, of the religious origins of the Middle Ages and modernity, necessary to understand his thinking. After enunciate the categories that integrate his juridical theory, it is argued that the reactionary, being the general sense of his work, is implicit in the juridical through customary law, which is exposed in its correspondence with language. In three chapters an anthological order is proposed to demonstrate the unity of the literary work of Nicolás Gómez Dávila beyond “Scholia to an implicit text”.