Entre la realidad y la utopía: Ensayos sobre política, moral y socialismo

by Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

Reunión de ensayos destinados a explicar en lo posible las relaciones entre la ética y el poder, y entre la doctrina política y la utopía. En la primera parte se hace el análisis del concepto del poder derivado del pensamiento de Karl Marx y la segunda parte se ocupa de la moral y su complejo contexto. El libro culmina con un análisis de la utopía.

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor.

After studying philosophy at the University of Madrid, Vázquez emigrated to Mexico in 1939 with thousands of other intellectuals, scientists and artist following the defeat of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. 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 holds honorary doctoral degrees in 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. As a matter of fact, The Philosophy of Praxis was published at around the same time as Marcuse was writing his One Dimensional Man. In regard to ethics, he opposes normativism.