Antonio Caso Andrade

Antonio Caso Andrade ( born December 19, 1883 in Mexico City; † March 6, 1946 ) was a Mexican lawyer, philosopher and writer, and is next to Alfonso Reyes and José Vasconcelos as one of the leading intellectuals of modern Mexico.

Biography

Caso studied law at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia in Mexico City and completed his studies in 1905. The following year he founded with José Vasconcelos and Carlos González Peña, the literary magazine " Savia Moderna " and after its dissolution in 1909 the literary circle " Ateneo de la Juventud ", which also Alfonso Reyes belonged. Like him, he lectured in literature and philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM).

Caso was never practiced law, but taught literature, philosophy and sociology at the National University. In 1910 he founded with the Faculty of Arts of the UNAM and was later their manager. In his teachings, he turned against positivism and made known philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl and Oswald Spengler in Mexico.

Works

Philosophical works

  • Problemas filosóficos (1915 )
  • La filosofía de la Intuition (1915 )
  • Filósofos Doctrinas y Morales ( 1915)
  • La existencia economía como, como disinterested, como caridad (1916 )
  • Drama per Musica (1922 )
  • El concepto de la Historia universal de la filosofía de los valores (1923 )
  • El problema de México y la Ideologia Nacional (1924 )
  • Principios de estética (1925 )
  • Historia del pensamiento y Antología Filosofico (1926 )
  • Sociología genética y Sistematica (1927 )
  • El acto ideatorio (1934 )
  • Positivismo, neopositivismo y Fenomenologia (1941 )
  • El hombre del peligro (1942 )
  • Filósofos y moral istas franceses (1943 )
  • México ( apuntamientos de cultura patria ) ( 1943)

Poetry collections

  • Crisopeya (1931 )
  • El políptico de los días del mar (1935 )
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