Luis Villoro
Luis Villoro | |
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Born | 3 November 1922 Barcelona, Spain |
Died | 5 March 2014 (aged 91) Mexico City, Mexico |
Relatives | Carmen Villoro (daughter) Juan Villoro (son) Estela Ruiz Milán (wife)[1] |
Luis Villoro Toranzo (3 November 1922 – 5 March 2014) was a Spanish–Mexican philosopher, researcher, university professor, diplomat, academic and writer. He published more than ten books between 1950 and 2007.
Villoro was born in Barcelona on 3 November 1922 to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother. Between 1983 and 1987, he was a delegate for Mexico in UNESCO. He was named an honorary member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in 2007.
Luis Villoro received the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1986, for his effort in the field of history, social sciences, and philosophy. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Villoro died from respiratory failure on 5 March 2014 in Mexico City. He was 91 years old.[2]
Thought
The main themes of the philosophy of Luis Villoro are the following:
Among the topics Villoro studied were
Bibliography
- Los grandes momentos del indigenismo en México, México: El Colegio de México, 1950.
- El proceso ideológico de la revolución de independencia, México: UNAM, 1953.
- Páginas filosóficas, Jalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1962.
- La idea y el ente en la filosofía de Descartes, México: FCE, 1965.
- Signos políticos, México: Grijalbo, 1974.
- Estudios sobre Husserl, México: UNAM, 1975.
- Creer, saber, conocer, México: Siglo XXI, 1982.
- El concepto de ideología y otros ensayos, México: FCE, 1985.
- El pensamiento moderno. Filosofía del renacimiento, México: FCE / El Colegio Nacional, 1992.
- En México, entre libros. Pensadores del siglo XX, México: FCE, 1995.
- El poder y el valor. Fundamentos de una ética política, México: FCE / El Colegio Nacional, 1997.
- Estado plural, pluralidad de culturas, México: Paidós / UNAM, 1998.
- De la libertad a la comunidad, México: Ariel / ITESM, 2001.
- Los retos de la sociedad por venir, México: FCE, 2007.
References
- ^ En la mirada de la familia Villoro. zonaoctaviopaz.com
- Terra Networks. 5 March 2014. Archived from the originalon 9 August 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2014. (in Spanish)
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