Jaume Serra Hunter in the intellectual debates of the first third of the xx century

Abstract

Professor Jaume Serra Hunter became an important politician during the time of the Second Republic, as headmaster of the Universitat de Barcelona at the time of the negotiation of the autonomy of the university. Some years later he found himself amidst the disputes promoted by Eugeni d’Ors over the value of Catalan philosophy and the possibility of reform of the country’s universities. In both cases, he adopted contrary positions to those of Ors. He was founder of the Societat Catalana de Filosofia and seeked to promote the normalization of the Catalan language.