Gonzalo Arango
| Gonzalo Arango Arias | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 18, 1931 Andes, Colombia |
| Died | September 25, 1976 (aged 45) , Colombia |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Existentialism |
|
Main interests
|
Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Theology, Moral |
|
Notable ideas
|
Nadaísmo |
|
Influences
|
|
Gonzalo Arango Arias (born in Andes, Antioquia 1931 – , Cundinamarca 1976) was a Colombian poet, journalist and philosopher. During a repressive phase of government in the 1940s he led a literary movement known as Nadaísmo (Nothing-ism). He and other young Colombian thinkers of his generation in the movement were inspired by the Colombian philosopher Fernando González Ochoa.
Arango's life was characterized by large contrasts from an open atheism to an intense spirituality, and a strong criticism of the society of his time. Those contrasts can be read in the First Manifesto of Nadaísmo as "The artist is considered sometimes a symbol fluctuation between holiness and madness". Arango died in a tragic car accident in the city of in 1976 when he was planning to move to London so that "by losing me, Colombians win me".
Gonzalo Arango was born in Andes, a town of the Antioquian South-Eastern region in 1931, in a time known in Colombia as the Regime of the Liberals that had to face the Great Depression. It was also the time of Constitutional and social reforms such as that of president Alfonso López Pumarejo. When he was an adolescent he saw the falling of the country into a bloody fight between the two traditional political parties after El Bogotazo of April 9, 1948, a period of violent civil strife that was triggered by the murder of presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. He lived also in a time when the Catholic Church in Colombia possessed the control of education, thanks to the Colombian Constitution of 1886, and thus exerted a great authority over political, cultural and social matters, such as in the censorship over intellectual material produced in the nation. As an example, one of the works by philosopher Fernando González Ochoa, "Viaje a pie" (Trip by foot) was forbidden by the Archbishop of Medellín under death penalty in 1929. This social context promoted his growing as an eccentric writer and thinker, and would influence Arango's work.
...
Wikipedia