Carlos Fernández Liria (born 1959) is a Spanish philosopher and lecturer at the
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Biography
He was born in 1959 in
Zaragoza. Fernández Liria, who started his teaching experience as professor of
secondary education, also worked as TV writer alongside fellow philosopher
Santiago Alba
Santiago Alba y Bonifaz (23 December 1872, in Zamora – 8 April 1949) was a Spanish politician and lawyer. He served as Minister of the Navy, Minister of Education and Science, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Fore ...
in the 1980s, developing the scripts for the cult children's show ''
La Bola de Cristal
''La Bola de Cristal'' ( en, The Crystal Ball) was a Spanish television show that was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española from 1984 to 1988.
The show was the brainchild of Spanish writer Dolores Rico Oliver (better known for ...
''. Following the earning of a PhD in philosophy at the UCM, reading a dissertation about
Jean-Paul Sartre in 1987 titled ''Una ontología positiva. Ensayo a partir de “El ser y la nada” de Sartre'' supervised by
Sergio Rábade Romeo (initiated under the supervision of
Gabriel Albiac), he became a senior lecturer at the former university in 1989.
He has been the doctoral supervisor of, among others,
César Rendueles
César Rendueles (born 1975, Girona) is a Spanish sociologist and essayist.
Life
Although born in Girona, he grew up in Gijon and lives in Madrid. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, was an associate professor at the Carlos III University and visiting ...
and
Luis Alegre
Luis Alegre (c. 1510 – 1573) was a Flemish soldier, in the service of the Spanish Crown, who served as conquistador and expeditionary of the Río de la Plata and Paraguay.
Biography
He arrived at the Río de la Plata in the expedition of ...
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He is the father of
Eduardo Fernández Rubiño
Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to:
Association football
* Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator
* Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footba ...
, politician and activist.
Political positions
Fernández Liria self-identifies as
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
"since forever". He has stood out as staunch supporter of the
Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. An admirer of
Julio Anguita
Julio Anguita González (21 November 194116 May 2020) was a Spanish politician and historian. He was Mayor of Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba from 1979 to 1986, coordinator of United Left (Spain), United Left (IU) between 1989 and 1999, and Secretary- ...
, he lent support to
Podemos in the beginnings of the party; the purpose of his work ''En defensa del populismo'', in which he outlines a reinterpretation of the
Enlightenment
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Age of Enlightenment
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and
Rousseau, has been described as essentially an apology of the party. Later, in 2019, he removed support from Podemos and endorsed
Más Madrid and
Más País instead along his disciple Luis Alegre.
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Complutense University of Madrid alumni
21st-century Spanish philosophers
20th-century Spanish philosophers
Spanish television writers
Male television writers
1959 births
Living people
Spanish male writers
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid