Heleno Saña

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Heleno Saña Alcon (* 1930 in Barcelona ) is a social philosopher and freelance writer . He has lived in Germany since 1959 and has written over 30 books in Spanish and German.

Life

Heleno Saña comes from a libertarian - anti-fascist family, his youth was marked by the repeated arrests of his father (Juan Saña, member of the CNT and the Ateneo Enciclopédico Popular) and the underground struggle against the Franco regime . After training as a journalist in Madrid, he moved to Germany in 1959; since then he has lived in Darmstadt in southern Hesse . Saña writes about his decision to leave Spain in his book Don Quixote in Germany. Autobiographical Notes of an Outsider :

“ Maybe my decision to expatriate and settle in Germany was the wrong one. Only: when I decided, Germany was less of a country to me than a woman. The only thing that really mattered to me was the woman I met in Madrid and with whom I wanted to live - no matter how, no matter where. Accordingly, I didn't hesitate for a second to break the bridges behind me and say goodbye to my life in the Spanish capital. "

Saña combines his writing activity with his interest in historical, socio-historical and philosophical topics. He writes for several Spanish and South American periodicals, especially for the cultural magazines El Europeo and Índice (both Madrid), in which he has been reporting on Germany for more than 20 years.

His books Do you understand Germany? , The Upright Nation , The Fourth Reich and The End of Coziness aroused some fierce controversy. The small magazine Die Brücke , which advocates intercultural dialogue . Forum for anti-racist politics and culture , published by Necati Mert, has been the most important platform for Saña in Germany since the 1990s. Saña was married to a German woman and the couple have a daughter, Cristina.

Works

  • The European crisis . Darmstadt 1974.
  • Benposta - a city for children . Gütersloh 1979.
  • Do you understand Germany? Impressions from a Spanish intellectual . Edition Qumran published by Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 1986.
  • Dialectic of human emancipation . Cologne 1989.
  • When the Euro-Germans come: disputes with Heleno Saña (and W. Christian Schmitt), Morstadt, 1991. ISBN 3-88571-221-0
  • The uptight nation . Knaur Verlag, Munich 1992.
  • The fourth Reich: Germany's late victory . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1990.
  • The end of comfort . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1992.
  • Guernica and the Germans . Hamburg 1992.
  • The lie of Europe. A continent fears for its future . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1993.
  • Lost humanity . Düsseldorf 1994.
  • The Germans: Between tearfulness and megalomania . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89136-548-9
  • Civilization is eating your children . Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg 1997.
  • The misery of the political . Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998.
  • The libertarian revolution. The anarchists in the Spanish Civil War . Hamburg 2001.
  • Power without morality. The rule of the west and its foundations . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2003.
  • Don Quixote in Germany. Autobiographical record of an outsider . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2005.
  • Dignity and resistance. Humanity in an inhuman world . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2007.

Works in Spanish (selection)

  • El capitalism y el hombre . Madrid 1967.
  • El anarquismo. De Proudhon a Cohn-Bendit . Madrid 1970.
  • El marxismo su teoría y su practice . Madrid 1971.
  • Cultura Proletaria y Cultura Burgesa . Madrid 1972.
  • Historia, Marxismo y Filosofía . Madrid 1972.
  • Historia y Conflicto . Madrid 1976.
  • La filosofía de Hegel . Madrid 1980.
  • Noche sobre Europa: el fascismo alemán 1919-1980 . Erisa, Madrid 1980, ISBN 84-85844-00-9
  • El franquismo sin mitos: conversaciones con Serrano Suñer . Grijalbo, Barcelona 1982, ISBN 84-253-1370-8
  • Crónica de una ausencia . Prensa y Ediciones Iberoamericanas, Madrid 1997, ISBN 84-86568-05-6
  • El dualismo Español . Madrid.
  • Syndicalismo y autogestion . Madrid 1997.
  • La Civilización devora a sus hijos . Barcelona 1999.
  • Atlas del Pensamiento Universal: historia de la filosofía y los filósofos . Almuzara, Córdoba 2006, ISBN 84-88586-96-5
  • Antropomanía: en defensa de lo humano (2006)
  • Historia de la filosofía española (2007)
  • Breve historia de la ética: una introducción a la teoría de la moral (2009)
  • Tratado del hombre (2010)
  • La derrota de Dios (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saña, Heleno: Don Quixote in Germany. Autobiographical record of an outsider . Papyrossa , Cologne 2005, p. 70.
personal data
SURNAME Saña, Heleno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saña Alcon, Heleno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Spanish social philosopher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona