[New Entry by Carlos Sánchez on March 29, 2025.]
Mexican existentialism grows out of the encounter, engagement, and appropriation with French and German existentialist philosophies in Mexico mid-way through the twentieth-century. Key players in this tradition were Jose Gaos (1900 – 1969), Antonio Caso (1883 – 1946), and, especially, el grupo Hiperion (the Hyperion Group). Members of Hyperion, but particularly Emilio Uranga (1921 – 1988), Leopoldo Zea (1912 – 2004), Jorge Portilla (1918 – 1963), and Luis Villoro (1922 – 2014),…
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