La Recepció del pensament i la cultura europeus a la Catalunya de la Restauració: l'Ateneu Barcelonès i la seva biblioteca com a vehicles de recepció, assumpció i difusió

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to show the necessity of confirming and/or fixing the key points in Catalonian autonomous thinking evolution. Also to understand this confirmation as part of a dynamic process where we go from an early subordination and minimizing period to an equality demand in relation to the Spanish official culture supported by the use of Castilian language. European intelectuals and thinkers contribution allowed building of a cultural model which, from the XIX century nineties, has the own country and cross-border contribution as a model, strongly pervaded with French, as well as Anglo-saxon and Germanic trends. It culturally allows coexistence of religious and secular modernism currents, and politically recovers a country which is theoretically fixed in the past but that also incorporates all the news drawn by the mass society. The Ateneus Library and more generally the Institution itself, allows us to carefully follow this trip confining its internal crisis and studying its list of titles, and mainly its modification, along the period.