The philosopher, essayist and academic Spanish Emilio Lledo, 87, was honored Wednesday with the Princess Award Asturias for Communications and Humanities in recognition of a lifetime of thinking about the nature the human being.
“thinker of international importance and path exemplary in the field of humanities, Lledó sees philosophy as meditation on language and emphasizes the natural tendency of human beings to communicate,” he said President of the jury to announce the award in a brief televised ceremony from Oviedo, in northern Spain.
“enlightened reason through a dialogue that promotes coexistence in freedom and democracy Endorses” said the jury, which chose Lledó among 28 candidates from 15 countries including the Mexican historian Miguel Leon-Portilla, a British journalist Christiane Amanpour US channel CNN, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo or the Argentine comic-musical group Les Luthiers.
The award for Communication and Humanities is the third of eight each year since 1981 awarded the Prince Foundation Asturias , now renamed Princess Foundation Asturias in honor of the small Leonor de Borbón, 9, new heir to the throne of Spain after the proclamation of his father, Philip VI, as the new monarch in June.
Born 5 November 1927 in Seville, in the south, Lledo studied philosophy at the Universities of Madrid and Heidelberg, Germany, where he met thinkers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Löwith and Otto Regenbogen.
More He later taught at both institutions as well as the University of Barcelona and the National University of Distance Education in Madrid
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Member life of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin since 1988 and member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1993, is author of many works including “Silence of Writing” (1981), “Images and Words: Essays humanities” ( 1998), “In Praise of unhappiness” (2006) and “Books and freedom” (2013).
“Happiness has become a constant in his work,” recalled Wednesday the Center International Research, Development and Innovation in Madrid where Lledó Reading is currently involved in a series of lectures analyzing the thought of ancient Greek Epicurus and his philosophy of happiness in times of crisis.
he “language is an essential element in thinking and in the way the man installed in society or in nature,” said for his part the Foundation, recalling its numerous international awards among which is the International Essay Prize Pedro Henriquez Urena of the Mexican Academy of Language in 2014.
Equipped with 50,000 euros (about $ 56,000) and a sculpture created by Joan Miró, the Princess Awards Asturias distinguish people or relevant institutions in areas ranging from scientific research to sports through international cooperation and harmony.
In recent weeks were awarded the American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola with the prize of the Arts and French economist Esther Duflo with Social Sciences.
The Argentine cartoonist Quino, creator of Mafalda, had been rewarded last year in the category of communication, according to the latest editions of the American photographer Annie Leibovitz and Japanese Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of characters like Mario Bros and considered the father of modern video game.
The awards of this 35th edition will be delivered in the fall at a ceremony in Oviedo, headquarters of the Foundation Princess Asturias , led by the kings of Spain.
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