Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (September 17, 1915 – July 8, 2011) was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia. Biography After studying philosophy at the University of Madrid, Vázquez emigrated to Mexico in 1939 with thousands of other intellectuals, scientists and artists following the defeat of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, in which he participated as editor of the central publication of the Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU) “Ahora”. Sánchez was appointed a full-time professor of philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1959, becoming a professor emeritus of the university in 1985. Sánchez also held honorary doctoral degrees from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the University of Cádiz (Spain). He embraced Marxism, although an open, renovating, critical and non-dogmatic version of it. His fresh interpretation of Marxism ran parallel to that of the Frankfurt School. In fact, The Philosophy of Praxis was published at around the same time as Herbert Marcuse was writing his One Dimensional Man. In regard to ethics, he opposed normativism. Philosophical works The Aesthetic Ideas of Marx (1965) The Philosophy of Praxis (1967) Rousseau in Mexico (The Philosophy of Rousseau and the Ideology of Independence) (1969) Aesthetics and Marxism (1970) Anthology. Texts of Aesthetics and Theory of Art (1972) Art and Society: Essays in Marxist Aesthetics (1973) From Scientific Socialism to Utopian Socialism (1975). Miscellaneous Memoirs Recollections and Reflections of an Exile (1997) Poetry Poetry (2005) See also Western Marxism References Gandler, Stefan: Critical Marxism in Mexico: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, Leiden/Boston, Brill Academic Press, 2015. 467 pages. .(Historical Materialism Book Series, ; vol. 87.) Gandler, Stefan: Peripherer Marxismus. Kritische Theorie in Mexiko. Hamburg, Berlin: Argument-Verlag, 1999. 459 pages, . Gandler, Stefan: Marxismo crítico en México, Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez y Bolívar Echeverría.'' (Foreword: Michael Löwy.) México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica / Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM / Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 2007, 621 pages, . Reprint: 2008. External links Biography Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Marxism The Praxis in Sánchez Vázquez An interview with Sánchez Vázquez Spanish Philosopher Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez Dies in Mexico 1915 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Spanish philosophers Marxist theorists Marxist writers Mexican philosophers Mexican male writers National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty People from Algeciras Spanish philosophers Spanish emigrants to Mexico