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Antonio Escohotado | |
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| Born | 5 July 1941 Madrid, (Spain) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Antonio Escohotado Espinosa (Madrid, 5 July 1941) is a spanish researcher and writer whose work has focused on law, philosophy and sociology, although he has also covered many other realms. He is best known for his work on drug's history and use and his antiprohibitionist positions. The leitmotiv of his work is an affirmation of freedom as an antidote against fear or coercion that pushes the human being towards all kinds of servitudes. On the professional level he has developed a huge task as a translator that covers more than forty titles, among others the works of Newton, Hobbes, Jefferson and Bakunin, has especially disseminated the work of Thomas Szasz and that of Ernst Jünger. He has worked until his retirement in 2013 as a professor of Philosophy and Methodology of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UNED in Madrid. Recently he has been immersed in the study of the history of the communist movement with the writing of "Los enemigos del comercio" (2008-2014), an exhaustive monograph that has already ended with the publication of the third volume.
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Among his work, include titles such as Marcuse, utopia and reason (1969); From Physis to Polis (1973); Reality and substance (1978); Majesties, crimes and victims (1987); Philosophy and methodology of Science (1987); General history of drugs (1989-1990); The book of poisons (1990); The spirit of the comedy (1991), which received the Anagrama essay award; To a phenomenology of drugs (1992); Prostitutes and wives (four myths about sex and duty) (1993); Drugs: from the beginnings to prohibition (1994), Learning from drugs: uses and abuses, prejudices and challenges (1995) and Chaos and Order (1999)