Carlos Martínez Gorriarán is a Spanish scholar, born in

San Sebastián San Sebastián, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián (, ), is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, from the France–Spain border ...

, Basque Country,

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. After being a member of Marxist and Basque nationalist movements, he became one of the founding members and spokespersons of

¡Basta Ya! ''¡Basta Ya!'' () was a Spanish grassroots organization uniting individuals of various political positions against terrorism and violence, notably ETA (separatist group), ETA, and against the proposal for a new Statute of Autonomy of the Basque ...

association and head of the from which the

Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy ( , UPyD ) was a Spanish list of political parties in Spain, political party founded in September 2007 and dissolved in December 2020. It was a social liberalism, social-liberal party that rejected any form of nation ...

(UPyD) party emerged in September 2007. In ¡Basta Ya! he was opposed to ETA, and also to the "obligatory nationalism" that he considered to be occurring in the Basque Country. He is a member of the Directing and Political counsels of the party. He is a philosophy teacher in the Basque Country University. Since the

2011 Spanish General Election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 November 2011, to elect the members of the 10th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate of Spain, ...

, he has been a deputy in the Spanish Congress representing the UPyD in Madrid Province.

Works

* ''Movimientos cívicos'' (Turpial, 2008). * ''Casa, provincia, rey: (para una historia de la cultura del poder en el Pais Vasco)'', (Alberdania, 1993). * ''El arte vasco y el problema de la identidad'', (Alberdania, 1995), (In collaboration with Imanol Agirre Arriaga). * ''Oteiza, un pensamiento sin domesticar: ensayo'', (San Sebastián; Baroja, D.L. 1989).

Reviews

* ''Un libro de excepción'', a review of ''Porque tengo hijos'' by

Rosa Díez Rosa María Díez González (born 27 May 1952) is a Spanish politician from Union, Progress and Democracy, UPyD deputy in the Congress of Deputies from 2008 to 2016. When she was a member of the PSOE, she defined herself as a social democrat ...

Collaborations in collective works

* ''Fernando Savater y su obra: una actualización fundamental de la filosofía'' ** en la obra ''Libertad de filosofar: ética, política y educación en la obra de Fernando Savater'' / coord. por Francisco Giménez Gracia, Enrique Ujaldón Benítez, 2007, pags. 119-144 * ''La crisis de la cultura en la época de la globalización'' ** en la obra ''Los temas de nuestro tiempo'' / coord. por Fernando García de Cortázar Ruiz de Aguirre, 2002, pags. 115-140 * ''Sobre los orígenes y lógica del terrorismo en el País Vasco'' ** en la obra ''Nacionalismo: pasado, presente y futuro'' / coord. por Antonio Hernández, Javier Espinosa, 2000, pags. 99-114

Magazine articles

* ''Los Relatos de kolymá, de Varlam Shalámov: la tensión entre literatura y testimonio (sobre las propiedades cognitivas de la narración)'' ** en ''Enrahonar: Quaderns de filosofía'', Nº 38-39, 2007, pags. 101-115 * ''El terrorismo etarra: un final confuso'' ** en ''Noticiero de las ideas'', Nº. 25, 2006, pags. 72-80 * ''Thoreau, una vida bella y libre'' ** en '' Revista de Libros'', Nº. 103-104, 2005, pags. 45-46 * ''Los movimientos cívicos vascos frente a ETA'' ** en ''Claves de la razón práctica'', Nº 147, 2004, pags. 28-37 * ''Sobre la interpretación y la verdad en la filosofía contemporánea (I)'' ** en ''Bitarte: Revista cuatrimestral de humanidades'', Año 11, Nº. 32, 2004, pags. 73-101 * ''Sobre la interpretación y la verdad en la filosofía contemporánea (y II)'' ** en ''Bitarte: Revista cuatrimestral de humanidades'', Año 11, Nº. 33, 2004, pags. 21-43 ** ''Una izquierda antinacionalista'' ** en ''Archipiélago: Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura'', Nº 45, 2001, pags. 40-41 * ''La crisis de la democracia en el País Vasco'' ** en '' Revista de Occidente'', Nº 241, 2001, pags. 114-133 * ''La ruptura de la tregua de ETA'' ** ''Claves de la razón práctica'', Nº 100, 2000, pags. 22-30 * ''Los orígenes estéticos de las identidades modernas'' ** en ''Claves de la razón práctica'', Nº 80, 1998, pags. 6-13 * A propósito de la estética de la provocación ** junto a Mikel Iriondo, en ''Recerca: revista de pensament i analisi'', Nº. 5, 1995, pags. 193-204 * ''Esencias de una patria imaginaria: el nacionalismo vasco según Sabino Arana'' ** en ''Claves de la razón práctica'', Nº 43, 1994, pags. 44-55 * El artista como personaje y la unicidad del arte: el enfrentamiento Oteiza-Chillida ** en ''Claves de la razón práctica'', Nº 8, 1990, pags. 63-66

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Carlos Martinez Gorriarán

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez Gorriaran, Carlos Recipients of the Order of Constitutional Merit Living people Union, Progress and Democracy politicians Members of the 10th Congress of Deputies (Spain) 1959 births People from San Sebastián University of the Basque Country alumni University of Deusto alumni Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country