La Catalunya ciutat

Although he never defined himself as a Catalanist, for a time Eugenio Trías approached Catalanism, at which time he wrote this text published in the mid-eighties, first in Catalan and later in Spanish, and which read today keeps alive his controversial and enlightening will . Catalanism sought, on the one hand, the reform of Spain with a modernizing proposal of the State and, on the other, focused on the construction of a project unrelated to Spain, with a strong sense of identity reflected in what Jordi Pujol meant by his ambivalent 'fer country'. Given all this, Eugenio Trías reflects in this book on the complex Catalan and Barcelona civil society, a society without a State and in dispute with a State that does not fully correspond to that modern civilization crystallized in Barcelona. Trías seeks the Catalan identity and difference, which figures in the idea-strength of the City. It is, therefore, about getting closer to the Catalonia-city, to that Catalonia that has in the civil, civilized and modern spirit, its sign of identity and its specific difference within the Hispanic framework.