Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

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Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (2003)

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (born September 17, 1915 in Algeciras , Cádiz province , Spain ; † July 8, 2011 in Mexico City ) was a Spanish-Mexican philosopher , literary critic and writer who, as a university professor , dealt in particular with Marxism and its renewal .

Life

After attending school, Sánchez Vázquez studied at the Universidad Central de Madrid , where he was a student of José Ortega y Gasset . During his studies he was involved in the youth association of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE) before he went into exile in Mexico after the end of the Spanish civil war with the Sinaia , where he lived until his death.

He later accepted a professorship for philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and taught there until his retirement . In addition to his teaching activities, he dealt in particular with questions about Marxism and saw himself as a critic of orthodox Stalinism . He tried to renew Marxism through humanistic and democratic approaches and wrote books such as Las ideas estéticas de Marx (1965), Estética y Marxismo (1970) and Del Socialismo Científico al Socialismo Utópico (1975). In addition, he wrote numerous other works as well as literary criticism.

For his scientific merits he was awarded the Order del Mérito Civil of Spain. He was also awarded honorary doctorates by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), University of Nueve Léon, Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), University of Cádiz , University of Complutense Madrid (2000) and the National Open University (UNED). In 2004 he also became an honorary citizen of the province of Málaga .

Fonts (in German)

  • Main motifs of Diego Rivera's aesthetics . In: Diego Rivera 1886–1957. Retrospective. Text-image volume for the exhibition of the same name 23 July - 16 September in West Berlin, New Society for Fine Arts (GBKB) and State Art Gallery Berlin . Conception of the volume: Olav Münzberg and Michael Nungesser. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin (West) 1987, pp. 194-208.
  • Review of the socialist idea in the face of its critics. Translated from Wolfgang Gabbert. In: Miloš Nikolić (ed.): Socialism on the threshold of the 21st century. Vol. 2, Argument-Verlag, Berlin (West) 1985, pp. 111-115.
  • Democracy, revolution and socialism. Translated by Stefan Gandler . In: Discus. Frankfurt student newspaper. Frankfurt am Main July 1990, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 43-49.
  • We'll have to pay for it. Mexican intellectuals discuss socialism and communism. Discussion with the following participants: Rolando Cordera, Djuka Julios, Eduardo Montes, Luis Salazar C. and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. In: Discus. Frankfurt student newspaper. Frankfurt am Main May 1990, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 21-26.
  • Don Quixote's utopia. Translated by Nana Badenberg. In: The argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences. Hamburg Jan. - Feb. 1994, Vol. 36, No. 203, Issue 1, pp. 79-84.

more publishments

  • El pulso ardiendo. (1942)
  • La Filosofía de la Praxis. (1967), 2., ext. and heavily overworked. Edition. Grijalbo, México 1980. (Reprint: Siglo XXI Editores, México 2003, ISBN 968-23-2410-6 )
  • Rousseau en México (la filosofía de Rousseau y la ideología de la independencia). 1969.
  • Etica. 1969.
  • Antología. Textos of Estética y Teoría del Arte. 1972.
  • Sinaia. Diario de la Primera Expedición de Republicanos Españoles a México. 1989.
  • Invitación a la estética. 1992.
  • Filosofía y circunstancias. 1997.
  • Recuerdos y reflexiones del exilio. 1997.
  • El valor del socialismo . México, Itaca, 2000.
  • A tiempo y destiempo. 2003.
  • Ética y política. 2007.

literature

  • Stefan Gandler : Peripheral Marxism. Critical Theory in Mexico. (Argument special volume new series 270). Argument-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88619-270-9 .
(First published under the title: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría. On contemporary social philosophy in Mexico. Dissertation, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 1997)
  • Stefan Gandler : Social Philosophy in Mexico. Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría. In: Concordia. International journal of philosophy. Aachen, No. 40, Oct. 2001, pp. 27-44.
  • Stefan Gandler : Obituary for Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. In: ADLAF-Info . Working Group on German Research on Latin America , Hamburg, 2/2011, August 2011, pp. 12–15.
  • Stefan Gandler : Materialism Today. Alfred Schmidt and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez . In: Journal of Critical Theory. Lüneburg, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 36/37, pp. 144–159.

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  1. ↑ biography (span.)
personal data
SURNAME Sánchez Vázquez, Adolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish philosopher, literary critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Algeciras , Province of Cadiz, Spain
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2011
Place of death Mexico city