La república como proyecto democrático: Hermann Heller y la disputa republicana de su tiempo

The republican interpretation of Hermann Heller’s work has aroused the interest of many specialists in recent years. However, the specialized literature shows both a methodological and a philosophical-political deficiency. While the former is expressed in the limited attention paid to the context of discussions on republicanism in Weimar Republic, the latter can be seen in the lack of theoretical depth given to the concept of republic. To overcome this double deficit, in this article, it is claimed that Heller argued for a democratic republicanism that differed from the predominant conceptions of his time, in particula, from the so-called “Vernunftrepublikanismus”. With this, he sought, within the framework of a constitution that represented a new institutional and legal framework, to lay the foundations for the political coexistence of a society that had been profoundly transformed by its military defeat.