Emilio Uranga González (1921 - October 31, 1988) was a Mexican philosopher.

Biography

Emilio was born in 1921 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of ...

. He studied at high school hermanos de las escuelas Cristianas, and proceeded to

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigge ...

to study medicine in 1941 and left the university in 1944 to study philosophy. He made contact with the philosophical school of

José Gaos José Gaos (26 December 1900, Gijón, Spain – 10 June 1969, Mexico City) was a Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War and became one of the most important Mexican philosophers of the 20th cen ...

, and between 1947 and 1948 he joined and lead the Groupo Hiperion, with philosophers Ricardo Guerra, Jorge Portilla, Salvador Reyes Nevares, Fausto Vega, and Luis Villoro, and acted as an introducer of French existentialism to Mexico and developed a "Philosophy of Mexicanness".

References

Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico 1921 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Mexican philosophers {{Mexico-philosopher-stub