Emilio Lledó
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.
Emilio Lledó

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- 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.
- Full name
- Emilio Lledó Íñigo.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- philosopher, writer, essayist and university teacher.
- Fields
- philosophy.
- Education
- University of Madrid and Heidelberg University.
- Honours
- Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities, Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, Spanish Literature National Prize, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Biography
Biography
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.

Toledo, 9 de mayo de 2019.- El vicepresidente primero del Gobierno regional, José Luis Martínez Guijarro y el consejero de Educación, cultura y Deportes, Ángel Felpeto, asisten al acto de entrega de las Medallas al Mérito en la Investigación y en la Educación Universitaria en el Aula Magna del Campus Tecnológico Fábrica de Armas, que ha entregado el ministro de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades,
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• 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.
Career
Career
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.
Selected works
Selected works
• 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).
Philosophical thought
According to Lledó, the history of philosophy should be understood as a form of "collective memory", embracing mankind's total development, that can be structured through three main elements: • Classical Greek philosophy, with special attention to the Platonic dialogues and Aristotelian ethics as well as Epicureanism. • Attention to language as the principal object of philosophical analysis; which clearly converges in the development of the main currents of post-war European thought. • Elaborating fully a consideration of temporality and writing that will lead to a "philosophy of memory" and a textual anthropology, from hermeneutic roots.
Honors and awards
• Life member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (1988) • Elected to the Royal Spanish Academy (1993) • Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2004) • Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2005) • Lázaro Carreter Prize, from the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation (2007) • Princess of Asturias Award (2015) • Gold Medal of Merit in Research and University Education (2019) • A library has been named after him in Salteras, his parents' hometown.
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