Julián Marías
Julián Marías Aguilera (17 June 1914 – 15 December 2005) was a Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and member of the Madrid School.
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Julián Marías

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- Name
- Julián Marías
- Birth Name
- Julián Marías Aguilera
- Born
- 17 June 1914
- Birthplace
- Valladolid, Spain
- Died
- 15 December 2005
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Occupation
- Philosopher, writer, professor and essayist
- Nationality
- Spain
- Fields
- philosopher
- Education
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Honours
- Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities · Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts · Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise · Mariano de Cavia' Price · Fastenrath Award · Hijo Adoptivo de Soria
- Languages
- Spanish · French · English
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Julián Marías Aguilera (17 June 1914 – 15 December 2005) was a Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and member of the Madrid School.
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Julián Marías (1914–2005) was an essayist, philosopher and politician, among other activities, of Spanish nationality. The essayist was born in Valladolid and died in Madrid.
Julián Marías was educated at Complutense University of Madrid. The essayist worked for Harvard University, Indiana University Bloomington and University of California, Los Angeles, among others and was a member of Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Royal Spanish Academy. Julián Marías held the positions of Member of the Royal Spanish Academy and member of the Senate of Spain and worked in Madrid. Activity centred on philosopher.
Languages used include English, French and German. Honours include Fastenrath Award, Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts and Grand Cross of the Order of May, among others.
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Julián Marías studied at Complutense University of Madrid. The recorded working language is Spanish, French and English. The field of work recorded is philosopher. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Employment is recorded with University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University and Yale University. Positions recorded include member of the Senate of Spain and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Distinctions recorded are Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities, Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise and Mariano de Cavia' Price.
Julián Marías
Revista Gente y la actualidad. Octubre–diciembre de 1983. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key facts
Key facts
• Honorific Prefix — The Most Excellent • Name — Julián Marías • Honorific Suffix — OAXS • Era — 20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy • Birth Name — Julián Marías Aguilera • Born — 17 June 1914 • Birthplace — Valladolid, Spain • Died — 15 December 2005 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Occupation — Philosopher, writer, professor and essayist • Years Active — 1930s–2005 • Partner — Dolores Franco Manera • Relatives — Jesús Franco (brother-in-law) • Children — 4 Julián Marías Aguilera (17 June 1914 – 15 December 2005) was a Spanish philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and member of the Madrid School.
Life and work
Life and work
Marías was born in the city of Valladolid, and moved to Madrid at the age of five. He went on to study philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, graduating in 1936. Within months of his graduation the Spanish Civil War broke out. During the conflict Marías sided with the Republicans, although his actual contributions were limited to propaganda articles and broadcasts. After the end of the war in 1939, Marías was imprisoned for several months on false charges, and was unable to carry out university teaching activities after his release. His doctoral thesis was rejected due to the committee's animosity towards someone who was a disciple of Ortega. In 1940, his History of Philosophy was published — his first work published after the civil war — and although it ended up being a great publishing success, it led him to go through a period of financial difficulties due to his being banned from teaching by the Franco regime, and so Marías instead supported himself with private classes and translations. In 1948 he co-founded, along with his former teacher José Ortega y Gasset, the Instituto de Humanidades (which he went on to head after the death of Ortega in 1955). Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, being unable to teach in Spain, Marías taught at numerous institutions in the United States, including Harvard University, Yale University, Wellesley College, the University of Oklahoma, and UCLA. Marías wrote on a wide variety of subjects during his long career. A subject of particular interest was Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. In 1964 he was elected into the Real Academia Española, and he won a Prince of Asturias award in 1996. He is the father of novelist Javier Marías and art historian Fernando Marías, and married the sister of director Jesús Franco.
Works
Works
• Juventud en el mundo antiguo. Crucero universitario por el Mediterráneo, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1934 • Historia de la filosofía, with a prologue by Xavier Zubiri, epilogue by José Ortega y Gasset, Revista de Occidente, Madrid 1941 (28th ed., 1976) • La filosofía del Padre Gratry. La restauración de la Metafísica en el problema de Dios y de la persona, Escorial, Madrid 1941 • Miguel de Unamuno, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1943 • El tema del hombre, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1943 • San Anselmo y el insensato y otros estudios de filosofía, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1944 • Introducción a la filosofía, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1947 • La filosofía española actual. Unamuno, Ortega, Morente, Zubiri, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1948 • El método histórico de las generaciones, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1949 • Ortega y tres antípodas. Un ejemplo de intriga intelectual, Revista de Occidente, Buenos Aires, 1950 • Biografía de la Filosofía, Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1954 • Ensayos de teoría, Barna, Barcelona, 1954 • Idea de la Metafísica, Columba, Buenos Aires, 1954 • La estructura social. Teoría y método, Sociedad de Estudios y Publicaciones, Madrid, 1955 • Filosofía actual y existencialismo en España, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1955 • El oficio del pensamiento, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid, 1958 • La Escuela de Madrid. Estudios de filosofía española, Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1959 • Ortega. I. Circunstancia y vocación, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1960 • Los españoles, Revista de Occidente, Madrid. 1962 • La España posible en tiempo de Carlos III, Sociedad de Estudios y Publicaciones, Madrid, 1963 • El tiempo que ni vuelve ni tropieza, Edhasa, Barcelona, 1964 • Análisis de los Estados Unidos, Guadarrama, Madrid, 1968 • Antropología metafísica. La estructura empírica de la vida humana, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1970 • Visto y no visto. Crónicas de cine, Guadarrama, Madrid, 1970, 2 vols. • Imagen de la India e Israel: una resurrección, Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1973 • Problemas del cristianismo, BAC, Madrid, 1979 • La mujer en el siglo XX, Alianza, Madrid, 1980 • Ortega. II. Las trayectorias, Alianza, Madrid, 1983 • España inteligible. Razón histórica de las Españas, Alianza, Madrid, 1985 • La mujer y su sombra, Alianza, Madrid, 1986 • Ser español, Planeta, Barcelona, 1987 • Una vida presente. Memorias, Alianza, Madrid, 1988–1989, 3 vols.: I (1914–1951), II (1951–1975), III (1975–1989). • La felicidad humana, Alianza, Madrid 1989 • Generaciones y constelaciones, Alianza, Madrid, 1989 • Cervantes, clave española, Alianza, Madrid, 1990 • Acerca de Ortega, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1991 • La educación sentimental, Alianza, Madrid, 1992 • Razón de la filosofía, Alianza, Madrid, 1993 • Mapa del mundo personal, Alianza, Madrid 1993 • El cine de Julián Marías. Escritos sobre cine, compilation edited by Fernando Alonso, Royal Books, Barcelona, 1994, 2 vols. • Tratado de lo mejor, Alianza, Madrid, 1995 • Persona, Alianza, Madrid, 1996 • Sobre el cristianismo, Planeta Testimonio, Barcelona, 1997 • El curso del tiempo, Tomos I y II, Alianza, 1998. 2 vols. • Tratado sobre la convivencia, Martínez Roca, Barcelona 2000 • Entre dos siglos, Alianza, Madrid, 2002 • Obras, Revista de Occidente / Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1958–1970, 10 vols.
Selected works in translation
Selected works in translation
• Reason and Life: The Introduction to Philosophy, trans. Kenneth S. Reid and Edward Sarmiento (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956). • History of Philosophy, trans. Stanley Appelbaum and Clarence C. Strowbridge (New York: Dover Publications, 1966). • Miguel de Unamuno, trans. Frances M. López-Morillas (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966). • José Ortega y Gasset: Circumstance and Vocation, trans. Frances M. López-Morillas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970). • Metaphysical Anthropology: The Empirical Structure of Human Life, trans. Frances M. López-Morillas (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971). • Philosophy as Dramatic Theory, trans. James Parsons (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971). • Generations: A Historical Method, trans. Harold C. Raley (University: University of Alabama Press, 1971). • America in the Fifties and Sixties: Julián Marías on the United States, trans. Blanche De Puy and Harold C. Raley (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971). • A Biography of Philosophy, trans. Harold C. Raley (University: University of Alabama Press, 1987). • The Structure of Society, trans. Harold C. Raley with an introduction by Robert K. Merton (University: University of Alabama Press, 1987). • Understanding Spain, trans. Frances M. López-Morillas (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990). • Gratry's Philosophy, trans. Mary L. O'Hara (Adelaide: ATF Press, 1991). • The Christian Perspective, trans. Harold C. Raley (Houston: Halcyon Press, 2000). • Persona (forthcoming).
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1914
Julián Marías born at Valladolid.
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2005
Julián Marías died at Madrid.
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- 1.A. Pablo Iannone, Dictionary of World Philosophy, Routledge, 2013, p. 328: "Madrid School".
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