Aurora de Albornoz

scholar and poet spanish (1926-1990)

In the history of thought, Aurora de Albornoz is one of the names that keeps being returned to.

The record lists Aurora de Albornoz as scholar and poet spanish (1926-1990).

Aurora de Albornoz was born at Ḷḷuarca in 1926. Her recorded nationality is Spain. She studied at University of Salamanca and University of Paris.

Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.

Her academic posts were held at University of Puerto Rico and Autonomous University of Madrid.

The recorded fields of work are belletristic literature, prose and poetry.

The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.

That the work was done from Spain matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Aurora de Albornoz died in 1990, aged 64. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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