Spanish philosopher (1914–2005)
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Marías and the second or maternal family name is
Aguilera .
Julián Marías Aguilera (17 June 1914 – 15 December 2005) was a Spanish
philosopher associated with the
Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher
José Ortega y Gasset and member of the
Madrid School .
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Life and work
Marías was born in the city of
Valladolid , and moved to
Madrid at the age of five. He went on to study philosophy at the
Complutense University of Madrid , graduating in 1936. Within months of his graduation the
Spanish Civil War broke out. During the conflict Marías sided with the
Republicans , although his actual contributions were limited to propaganda articles and broadcasts.
Following the end of the war in 1939, Marías returned to education. His doctoral thesis was rejected by the university, however, and handed over to the police, due to his inclusion of a number of lines critical of the rule of
Franco . As a consequence of his writings Marías was briefly imprisoned and, upon his release, banned from teaching. Fortunately for Marías the proceeds from the sales of his History of Philosophy , which went through countless editions, meant that the punishment did not seriously damage his livelihood.
In 1948 he co-founded, along with his former teacher José Ortega y Gasset, the Instituto de Humanidades (which he went on to head after the death of Ortega in 1955). Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, being unable to teach in Spain, Marías taught at numerous institutions in the
United States , including
Harvard University ,
Yale University ,
Wellesley College ,
the University of Oklahoma , and
UCLA .
Marías wrote on a wide variety of subjects during his long career. A subject of particular interest was
Miguel de Cervantes '
Don Quixote . In 1964 he was elected into the
Real Academia Española , and he won a
Prince of Asturias award in 1996.
He is the father of novelist
Javier Marías and art historian Fernando Marías, and married the sister of director
Jesús Franco .
Works
Juventud en el mundo antiguo. Crucero universitario por el Mediterráneo , Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1934
Historia de la filosofía , with a prologue by
Xavier Zubiri , epilogue by
José Ortega y Gasset , Revista de Occidente, Madrid 1941 (28th ed., 1976)
La filosofía del Padre Gratry. La restauración de la Metafísica en el problema de Dios y de la persona , Escorial, Madrid 1941
Miguel de Unamuno , Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1943
El tema del hombre , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1943
San Anselmo y el insensato y otros estudios de filosofía , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1944
Introducción a la filosofía , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1947
La filosofía española actual. Unamuno, Ortega, Morente, Zubiri , Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1948
El método histórico de las generaciones , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1949
Ortega y tres antípodas. Un ejemplo de intriga intelectual , Revista de Occidente, Buenos Aires, 1950
Biografía de la Filosofía , Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1954
Ensayos de teoría , Barna, Barcelona, 1954
Idea de la Metafísica , Columba, Buenos Aires, 1954
La estructura social. Teoría y método , Sociedad de Estudios y Publicaciones, Madrid, 1955
Filosofía actual y existencialismo en España , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1955
El oficio del pensamiento , Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid, 1958
La Escuela de Madrid . Estudios de filosofía española, Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1959
Ortega. I. Circunstancia y vocación , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1960
Los españoles , Revista de Occidente, Madrid. 1962
La España posible en tiempo de Carlos III , Sociedad de Estudios y Publicaciones, Madrid, 1963
El tiempo que ni vuelve ni tropieza , Edhasa, Barcelona, 1964
Análisis de los Estados Unidos , Guadarrama, Madrid, 1968
Antropología metafísica. La estructura empírica de la vida humana , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1970
Visto y no visto. Crónicas de cine , Guadarrama, Madrid, 1970, 2 vols.
Imagen de la India e Israel: una resurrección , Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1973
Problemas del cristianismo , BAC, Madrid, 1979
La mujer en el siglo XX , Alianza, Madrid, 1980
Ortega. II. Las trayectorias , Alianza, Madrid, 1983
España inteligible. Razón histórica de las Españas , Alianza, Madrid, 1985
La mujer y su sombra , Alianza, Madrid, 1986
Ser español , Planeta, Barcelona, 1987
Una vida presente. Memorias , Alianza, Madrid, 1988–1989, 3 vols.: I (1914–1951), II (1951–1975), III (1975–1989).
La felicidad humana , Alianza, Madrid 1989
Generaciones y constelaciones , Alianza, Madrid, 1989
Cervantes, clave española , Alianza, Madrid, 1990
Acerca de Ortega , Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1991
La educación sentimental , Alianza, Madrid, 1992
Razón de la filosofía , Alianza, Madrid, 1993
Mapa del mundo personal , Alianza, Madrid 1993
El cine de Julián Marías. Escritos sobre cine , compilation edited by Fernando Alonso, Royal Books, Barcelona, 1994, 2 vols.
Tratado de lo mejor , Alianza, Madrid, 1995
Persona , Alianza, Madrid, 1996
Sobre el cristianismo , Planeta Testimonio, Barcelona, 1997
El curso del tiempo , Tomos I y II, Alianza, 1998. 2 vols.
Tratado sobre la convivencia , Martínez Roca, Barcelona 2000
Entre dos siglos , Alianza, Madrid, 2002
Obras , Revista de Occidente / Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1958–1970, 10 vols.
Selected works in translation
History of Philosophy , translated from Spanish by Stanley Appelbaum and Clarence C. Strowbridge, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1967.
Philosophy as Dramatic Theory
Metaphysical Anthropology: The Empirical Structure of Human Life
America in the Fifties and Sixties: Julián Marías on the United States
Biography of Philosophy
The Christian Perspective
References
^ A. Pablo Iannone, Dictionary of World Philosophy', Routledge, 2013, p. 328: "Madrid School".
External links
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
International National Academics People Other