Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (born in Algeciras, Andalucia, Spain, on September 17, 1915) is a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor.

After studying philosophy at the University of Madrid he emigrated to Mexico in 1939 with thousands of other intellectuals, scientists and artist following the defeat of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. He obtained a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he is currently a professor.

He embraced Marxism, although an open, renovating, critical and non-dogmatic version of it. In regard to ethics, he opposes normativism.

Publications

* "The Aestetic Ideas of Mexican lazyness" (1965)
* "The Philosophy of Praxis" (1967)
* "Rousseau in Mexico (the philosophy of Rousseau and the ideology of independence) (1969)
* "The Aestetics and Marxism" (1970)
* "Anthology. Texts of Aestetics and Theory of Art" (1972)
* "Art and Society: Essays in Marxist Aesthetics" (1973)
* "From Scientific Socialism to Utopian Socialism" (1975).

External links

* [http://www.afm.org.mx/textos/biografias/sanchezvazquez.html Biography]
* [http://www.rolandocordera.org.mx/confi/galvan.htm "Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Marxism"]
* [http://www.nodo50.org/comitecerezo/e_her_17feb03_2.htm "The Praxis in Sánchez Vázquez"]
* [http://www.ucm.es/info/eurotheo/filosofia/a_sanchezvazquez/trdlecea.htm An interview with Sánchez Vázquez]