Leopoldo Zea Aguilar
Leopoldo Zea Aguilar (born June 30, 1912 in Mexico City , † June 8, 2004 ) was a Mexican philosopher .
Life
Zea was Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , where he founded the School of Latin American Studies in 1966 . He became known as a connoisseur of Latin American positivism and dealt with the continent's cultural and historical identity in numerous books. For his work he was awarded the National Prize for Science and Art (1980), the Premio Gabriela Mistral and the Medalla Belisario Domínguez del Senado de la República (2000).
Fonts (selection)
He has published in German:
- Signals from the Sidelines: A Latin American Philosophy of History. Munich: Eberhard, 1989. ISBN 3-926777-03-6
- Why Latin America? Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus-Buchhandlung, 1994. ISBN 3-86073-265-X
- At the end of the 20th century: a lost century? Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus-Buchhandlung, 1997. ISBN 3-86073-367-2
literature
- Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Ed.): For Leopold Zea = Para Leopoldo Zea. Aachen: Verlag der Augustinus-Buchhandlung, 1992. ISBN 3-86073-081-9
- Leandro Otto Hofstätter: Contextual philosophy: the Latin American philosophy of history of Leopoldo Zea as the starting point and basis of a Latin American philosophy. Aachen: Mainz, 2006. ISBN 3-86130-586-0 (additional dissertation )
- Josef Estermann: Leopoldo Zea read interculturally. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2008. ISBN 978-3-88309-304-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopoldo Zea Aguilar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Leopoldo Zea Aguilar in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Leopoldo Zea Aguilar in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zea Aguilar, Leopoldo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zea, Leopoldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 2004 |