Luis Villoro

Villoro in 1999.

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. 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.^[1]

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

1. "Muere Luis Villoro, filósofo mexicano, a los 91 años de edad". Terra Networks. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014. (Spanish)

External links

• Luis Villoro at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas