Entre la ortodoxia y la revolución: una reconstrucción de la filosofía política de Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The aim of this paper is to examine the essays, literary and journalistic works of the English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton from a political theory framework and toquestion those conceptual elements which underlie some of the main assumptions of modernity. The specific purpose of this article is to organize those dispersed elements and postulate the possibility of drawing up a political philosophy on the basis of an integral reading of the author’s works. Chesterton’s criticism of the modern concept of progress is highlighted in order to explore the possibility of deriving a coherent body of ideas from the author’s rejections that could be considered relevant to political theory. I take as a starting point, core concepts in political science present in Chesterton’s works which are linked to key theological doctrines within Christian thinking, the fundamental vector of his writings. Emphasis is placed on studying in-depth the rejections of the author about democracy, thereby establishing a specific relation with his theological and political considerations