ABSTRACT
Cesar Grana was, by any standard employed, both a complex personality and a dedicated social scientist. The first part of this proposition will be evident to the reader of these essays. It was also readily apparent to those who had the benefit of knowing him, even casually. The second part of this proposition, his profound commitment to social science in general and to sociology in particular, is less easy to detect or describe. One of Grana's most favored, and favorite, sociologists was Daniel Bell. The totalitarian temptation also compelled Grana to examine how intellectuals as a class, a group that is highly favored in bourgeois society, become the purveyors of ideology and willing accomplices to the betrayal of ideals of free expression. Grana's excursion into large-scale systems involves equally large-scale symbols. The victory of the bullfight in Spanish national life coincides with the defeat of Spain's economic preeminence.
