José Gaos

José Gaos (* 1900 in Gijón, Spain – 1969 in Mexico) was a Spanish-born philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War.

Gaos was a professor of the University of Zaragoza and University of Madrid. In 1939 he relocated to Mexico and taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was influenced by German philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann and by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.

Gaos also was a prolific translator. He translated to the Spanish books of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, G. W. F. Hegel, Max Scheler, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Edmund Husserl.

Publications

* "La filosofía de Maimónides" (1940)
* "El pensamiento hispanoamericano" (1944)
* "Dos exclusivas del hombre: la mano y el tiempo" (1945)
* "Antología del pensamiento en lengua española en la edad contemporánea" (1945)
* "Filosofía de la filosofía" (1947)
* "Método para resolver los problemas de nuestro tiempo" (1950)
* "Introducción a" El ser y el tiempo "de Martin Heidegger" (1951)
* "En torno a la filosofía mexicana" (1952)
* "Filosofía mexicana en nuestros días" (1954)
* "La filosofía en la universidad" (1956)
* "Ensayos sobre Ortega y Gasset' (1957)
* "Confesiones profesionales" (1958)
* "Discurso de filosofía" (1959)
* "Orígenes de la filosofía y su historia" (1960)
* "Filosofía contemporánea" (1962)
* "Historia de nuestra idea del mundo" (1973)

External links

* [http://www.nueva-acropolis.es/zaragoza/biografia.asp?bio=31 Biography]