Alejandro Rossi (''Alessandro Rossi''; September 22, 1932 – June 5, 2009) was born in Florence, Italy of Venezuelan mother and Italian father) was an Italian- Venezuelan writer. Alejandro Rossi wrote philosophical essays, short stories and the following books: '' Lenguaje y significado'' (Language and Meaning) (Siglo XXI, 1968, FCE, 1995, 7th edition); '' Manual del Distraído'
Manual of the Absent-minded
(J. Mortiz, 1978, Anagrama, 1980, Monte Avila, 1987, FCE, 1992, 6th edition); '' Sueños de Occam'' (Occam's Dreams) (UNAM, 1982); '' La fábula de Las Regiones'' (the Fable of The Regions) (El Equilibrista, 1989), ''Edén: Vida imaginada'' (FCE, 2006). ''

Ortega y Gasset Ortega is a Spanish surname. A baptismal record in 1570 records a ''de Ortega'' "from the village of Ortega". There were several villages of this name in Spain. The toponym derives from Latin ''urtica'', meaning "nettle". Some of the Ortega spel ...

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(FCE, 1984); he edited

José Gaos José Gaos (26 December 1900, Gijón, Spain – 10 June 1969, Mexico City) was a Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War and became one of the most important Mexican philosophers of the 20th cen ...

' Anthology: '' Filosofía de la Filosofía'' (Philosophy of Philosophy) (Crítica, 1989). Rossi won the Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura (National Literary and Linguistics Prize) in 1999. Rossi's writing is marked by a rich language that plays with generic definitions.

Independent and Collaborative Works

Rossi was co-founder and co-director of the Hispanic-American magazine ''Crítica'' ("Criticism")''.'' He was also a member of the editing board for the magazine ''Plural'' and acted as the interim director for the magazine ''Vuelta.'' In 1983, Rossi was invited to attend St. Anthony's College in University of Oxford in Great Britain. Then in 1989, Rossi edited and wrote the foreword for the anthology

: ''Filosofía de la Filosofía'' ("José Gaos: The Philosophy of Philosophy") (Crítica) and also collaborated with various foreign others in books like ''Philosophie und Rechtstheorie in Mexiko'' (Duncker & Humblot, Berlín, 1989) and ''Philosophical Analysis in Latin America'' (Jorge J. E. Gracia et al., 1984). Some of his other well-known works include ''Manual del Distraído'' ("Manual of the Distracted") (1978), ''La Fábula de las Regiones'' ("The Legend of the Regions") (1997), and ''Lenguaje y significado'' ("Language and Meaning") (1968). On the same note, in a volume written in collaboration with other authors (FCE, 1984, 1996), Rossi paid homage to one of mainstays of his form of thought, José Ortega and Gasset. In addition to his work for ''Plural'', Rossi also wrote supplemental articles on culture for the newspaper '' Excélsior'' which, at the time, was headed by the poet Octavio Paz and under the editorship of

Julio Scherer García Julio Scherer García (7 April 1926 – 7 January 2015) was a Mexican author and journalist. He was the editor of the daily newspaper ''Excelsior (Mexican daily newspaper), Excélsior'' from 1968 to 1976. He also was the founder of the newsmagazi ...

. In 1976, the newspaper was subdued by members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) led by Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970-1976) -- due to the newspaper's views against his administration—leaving Rossi to follow Paz and his coworkers in founding the literary review ''Vuelta'' of which Rossi served as the interim director for a few months. From there, Rossi became part of the review's editing board until the very last day of publication. ''Vuelta'' received the Prince of Asturias Award (Spanish: ''Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades'') in 1993.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi, Alejandro 1932 births Mexican male writers 20th-century Mexican philosophers Members of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) Mexican people of Italian descent Mexican people of Venezuelan descent 2009 deaths