Emilio Lledó

Emilio Lledó studied at University of Madrid and Heidelberg University. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is philosophy. Employment is recorded with University of Madrid, Heidelberg University and University of Barcelona. Positions recorded include Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Distinctions recorded are Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities, Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, Spanish Literature National Prize and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise.

• Honorific Prefix — The Most Excellent • Name — Emilio Lledó • Birth Name — Emilio Lledó Íñigo • Born — 5 November 1927 • Birthplace — Seville, Spain Emilio Lledó Íñigo (born 5 November 1927) is a Spanish philosopher. He has been a professor at several universities and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

He took his bachelor's degree at the Instituto de Bachillerato Cervantes and, in 1952, his degree in philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He went to Germany to continue his studies in classical philosophy with Hans-Georg Gadamer, who helped him to finish his doctoral thesis by securing him a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 1955, he obtained a position at the Complutense University of Madrid, but returned to Germany after his marriage in 1958 because Gadamer, who was then a Dean of the faculty at the University of Heidelberg, had offered him a position there. In 1962, he again returned to Spain, taking a job as an instructor at the Instituto Núñez de Arce in Valladolid. After two years, he obtained a chair at the University of La Laguna. Shortly thereafter, in 1967, he moved to the University of Barcelona, where he had been given the chair in Philosophy. In 1978, he moved again, to the National University of Distance Education (UNED), where he remained until his retirement. Lledó was elected to Seat l of the Real Academia Española on 11 November 1993, he took up his seat on 27 November 1994.

• Filosofía y Lenguaje, Ariel (1970) • La Memoria del Logos, Taurus (1984) • Memoria de la Ética, Taurus (1994) • El Silencio de la Escritura, Espasa (1998) • El Surco del Tiempo: Meditaciones Sobre el Mito Platónico de la Escritura y la Memoria, Crítica (2000) • Elogio de la infelicidad, Cuatro (2005) • Ser Quien Eres: Ensayos para una Educación Democrática, University of Zaragoza (2009) • Lenguaje e Historia, Dykinson (2011) • El Epicureísmo, Taurus (2011) • La Filosofía, Hoy, RBA (2012) • Los Libros y la Libertad, RBA (2013). • Palabra y humanidad, KRK (2015). • Pensar es conversar. Diálogo entre filósofos, with Manuel Cruz, RBA (2015). • Fidelidad a Grecia, Cuatro (2015).