Joxe Azurmendi
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Joxe Azurmendi on the 50th anniversary of the magazine Jakin (2006)
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19 March 1941 Zegama, Basque Country, Spain |
| Alma mater | University of the Basque Country |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental Philosophy |
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Main interests
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Modernity, Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, Social philosophy, Political philosophy, Philosophical anthropology, Philosophy of language, ethics, nationalism, Basque literature |
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Notable ideas
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Relative relativism, open nature of human being, the State as secular church, morality as political weapon |
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Influences
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Joxe Azurmendi Otaegi (born 19 March 1941) is a Basque writer, philosopher, essayist and poet. He has published numerous articles and books on ethics, politics, the philosophy of language, technique, Basque literature and philosophy in general.
He is member of Jakin and the director of Jakin irakurgaiak, a publishing house which has published over 40 books under his management. He also collaborated with the Klasikoak publishing firm in the Basque translations of various philosophical works and was one of the founders of Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea (The Basque Summer University). He is currently a Professor of Modern Philosophy and a lecturer at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (The University of the Basque Country). In 2010 he was awarded the title "honorary academic" by Euskaltzaindia (The Basque Language Academy).
Azurmendi is an intellectual who studies the problem more than the solution. Azurmendi's essays cover modern European topics in great depth and knowledge. He has incorporated the philosophy and thinking of European thinkers, especially German ones. He often adopts a polemic tone.
In short, in the opinion of many, Joxe Azurmendi is one of the most prolific and erudite thinkers in the Basque Country.
Joxe Azurmendi studied philosophy and theology at The University of the Basque Country, Rome and Münster.
At the beginning of the 1960s he joined the cultural movement which grew up around the magazine Jakin, and was in fact the director of the publication when it was prohibited for the first time by Franco's regime. He has collaborated closely and uninterruptedly with the magazine since its restoration. In that publication he has raised the problems of Basque society in the context of European thinkers. During the early 1970s he focused his attention on disseminating basic literature in the Basque language on subjects which were being hotly debated at the time in the Basque Country: nationhood, socialism, internationalism, etc. In the 1980s he began teaching at The University of the Basque Country, and in 1984 he submitted his thesis on Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, the founder of the Mondragon cooperative movement, in which he argued that Arizmendiarrieta's project aimed to unite individuals and society under an organisation which combined both socialism and French personalism.
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