(Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, 2015) Ugarte Tellería, Javier
On the occasion of his retirement from the Complutense University of Madrid and his promotion to the status of Emeritus Professor
thereof, this article reviews the professional life
of Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa and stresses his relevance
for historiography and, more generally, for
the Spanish and Basque public life. The review
starts from the years at the University of Oxford
as a post-graduated Ph D student, and proceed
to analyze the «critical revisionism» of his historiography
derived from British empiricism (Lewis
B. Namier, Trevor-Roper...) as Isaiah Berlin
explained it. Finally the article analyzes Fusi’s
historiographical production and his public institutional
biography and academic responsibilities,
according to an askesis and spirit of service that
resembled that of the Spanish philosopher José
Ortega y Gasset.