José Vasconcelos
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José Vasconcelos (February 28, 1882, Oaxaca, Oaxaca – June 30, 1959, Mexico City) is on Mexican writer, thinker and politician of Native American and Portuguese ancestry. He married Serafina Miranda of Tlaxiaco in the state of Oaxaca in 1906. He is one of the most influential personalities in the development of modern Mexico.
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[edit] Life
Because of his father's work, he lived in Piedras Negras, Campeche, Tpluca and Mexico City. After graduating as a lawyer from the Escuela de Jurisprudencia in Mexico City (1905), he represented the Anti-Reelection Club in Washington, D.C., USA, and supported the Mexican Revolution of 1910 headed by Francisco I. Madero. Later, after a brief period of exile in the United States following a disagreement with Venustiano Carranza (1915–20), he returned and directed the National University of Mexico (1920) and created the Ministry of Public Education. He served as the first Secretary of Public Education under Álvaro Obregón (1920–25). He resigned in 1924 because of his opposition to President Elias Calles. From that position he worked in favour of the education of the masses and oriented the nation's education efforts along secular, civic, and pan-American (americanista) lines. He ran for president in 1929 but lost to Pascual Ortiz Rubio in a controversial election process and again left the country. He later directed the National Library (1940) and presided over the Mexican Institute of Hispanic Culture (1948).
[edit] Quotation
"Hitler, although he disposes of absolute power, finds himself a thousand leagues from Caesarism. Power does not come to Hitler from the military base, but from the book that inspires the troops from the top. Hitler's power is not owed to the troops, nor the battalions. but to his own discussions...Hitler represents, ultimately, an idea, the German idea, so often humiliated previously by French militarism and English perfidy. Truthfully, against Hitler we find civilian governed 'democracies' fighting. But they are democracies in name only". ("La Inteligencia se impone," Timon No. 16, 8 June 1940)
[edit] Publications
- Teoría dinámica del derecho (1907)
- La intelectualidad mexicana (1916)
- El monismo estético (1919)
- La Raza Cósmica (1925)
- Indología (1926)
- Ulises criollo (1935)
- Pesimismo alegre (1931)
- Estética (1936)
- La tormenta (1936)
- El desastre (1938)
- El proconsulado (1939)
- Ética (1939)
- Historia del pensamiento filosófico (1937)
- Lógica orgánica (1945)
- El ocaso de mi vida (1957)
[edit] See also
- Vasconcelos, José, La Raza Cósmica.
[edit] Further Reading
- Bar Lewaw, Itzhak. Introducción Crítico-Biografía a José Vasconcelos. Madrid: Ediciones Latinoamericanas, 1965.
- ---. José Vasconcelos. México: Clásica Selecta Editora Libreria, 1965.
- Carballo, Emmanuel. Diecinueve protagonistas de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX. México: Empresas Editoriales, SA, 1965; see especially. 17-47.
- De Beer, Gabriela. "El ateneo y los atenistas: un examen retrospectivo". Revista Iberoamericana 148-149, Vol 55 (1989): 737-749.
- Molloy, Sylvia. "First Memories, First Myths: Vasconcelos' Ulises criollo". En At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 186-208.
- Ward, Thomas. "José Vasconcelos y su cosmomología de la raza". En La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas. Lima: Editorial Universitaria URP, 2004, pp. 246-254.
[edit] External links
- http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9339382
- http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00061/lac-00061.html
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