Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

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

Life

After schooling Sánchez Vázquez studied at the Universidad Central de Madrid, where he was a student of José Ortega y Gasset. Already during his studies he was active in the youth wing of the Partido Comunista de España ( PCE), before he went to the end of the Spanish Civil War exile in Mexico and lived there until his death.

Later, he accepted a professorship of philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM) and taught at this until his retirement. In addition to his teaching, he was primarily concerned with questions about Marxism and saw himself as a critic of orthodox Stalinism. He tried to renew Marxism by humanistic and democratic approaches and wrote to books like Las ideas Estéticas de Marx ( 1965), Estética y Marxismo ( 1970) and Del Socialismo Científico al Socialismo Utópico (1975). He also wrote numerous other works and literary critical writings.

For his scientific achievements, he was awarded the Order del Mérito Civil of Spain. Besides him honorary doctorates from the University of Nueve Léon, Universidad de Guadalajara ( UdeG ), University of Cádiz, Complutense University of Madrid (2000) and the National Distance University ( UNED) were the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BPRD ), awarded. In 2004 he was also an honorary citizen of the province of Malaga.

Writings ( in German )

• Main motives of the aesthetics of Diego Rivera. In: Diego Rivera from 1886 to 1957. Retrospective. Text-image strip for the same exhibition July 23 - Sept. 16 in Berlin ( West), New Society for Visual Arts ( GBKB ) and Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin. Conception of the band: Olav Münzberg and Michael Nungesser. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin (West), 1987, pp. 194-208.
• Review of the socialist idea considering its critics. Übers Wolfgang Gabbert. In: Miloš Nikolić ( ed.): Socialism of the 21st century. Vol 2, argument -Verlag, Berlin (West), 1985, pp. 111-115.
• Democracy, revolution and socialism. Translator's Stefan Gandler. In: Discus. Frankfurter student magazine. Frankfurt am Main, July 1990, Vol 39, No. 3, pp. 43-49.
• We will have to pay for it. Mexican intellectuals discuss socialism and communism. Discussion with the following participants: Rolando Cordera, Djuka Julio, Eduardo Montes, Luis Salazar C. and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez. In: Discus. Frankfurter student magazine. Frankfurt am Main, May 1990 Vol 39, No. 2, pp. 21-26.
• The utopia of Don Quixote. Translator's Nana Badenberg. In: The argument. Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences. Hamburg Jan. - Feb. 1994, Vol 36, No. 203, No. 1, pp. 79-84.

More Releases

• El pulso Ardiendo. (1942 )
• La Filosofía de la practice. (1967 ), 2, exp. and revised heavily. Edition.. Grijalbo, México 1980 (reprint: Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico 2003, ISBN 968-23-2410-6 )
• Rousseau en México ( la filosofía de Rousseau y la de la Independencia Ideologia ). In 1969.
• Ética. In 1969.
• Antología. Textos of Estética y Teoría del Arte. In 1972.
• Invitación a la estética. In 1992.
• Filosofía y circunstancias. In 1997.
• Recuerdos y reflexiones del exilio. In 1997.
• El valor del socialismo. México, Itaca, 2000.
• A tiempo y destiempo. , 2003.
• Ética y política. , 2007.