Gold Medal of the University of Barcelona awarded to Philosopher Emilio Lledó

Emilio Lledó.
Emilio Lledó.
Institutional
(12/09/2016)

This Wednesday, September 14 the University of Barcelona will give the Gold Medal of the University to the philosopher Emilio Lledó. The event will be chaired by the Rector, Dídac Ramírez, with the participation of the General Secretary, Isabel Miralles; the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Josep Monserrat, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona José Manuel Bermudo. Professor Bermudo will give the gloss for Lledó, who taught at the University of Barcelona for over more than ten years.

Emilio Lledó.
Emilio Lledó.
Institutional
12/09/2016

This Wednesday, September 14 the University of Barcelona will give the Gold Medal of the University to the philosopher Emilio Lledó. The event will be chaired by the Rector, Dídac Ramírez, with the participation of the General Secretary, Isabel Miralles; the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Josep Monserrat, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona José Manuel Bermudo. Professor Bermudo will give the gloss for Lledó, who taught at the University of Barcelona for over more than ten years.

Emilio Lledó (Sevilla, 1927) graduated in Philosophy at the University of Madrid, where he was given the extraordinary degree award. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg and became a lecturer in Madrid, where he was given the extraordinary doctorate award in Philosophy. In 1964, he got the Chair in Foundations of Philosophy and History of Philosophical Systems at the University of La Laguna, and in 1967 became Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where he founded the courses for Philosophy of the Language and directed the Department of Philosophy. In 1978, he moved to the National Distance Education University, where he was appointed Vice-Rector.

Awardee of Princess of Asturias award for Communication and Humanities in 2015, Emilio Lledó is life member of the Institute for Advance Study in Berlin and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). He also received the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, National Essay Award, International Menendez Pelayo Award, and the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise.

Among his wide range of works there are El concepto ʻPoiesisʼ en la Filosofía Griega (1961), Filosofía y Lenguaje (1970), La Filosofía hoy (1975), Lenguaje e Historia (1978), El silencio de la escritura (1981), El surco del tiempo (1982), El Epicureísmo (1984), La Memoria del Logos (1984), Aristóteles y la Ética de la Polis (1985), Memoria de la ética (1994), Días y libros (1995), and Elogio de la infelicidad (2005). He also wrote more than a hundred research projects, and during his eleven years as Professor at the University of Barcelona, there were thirty-six doctorate thesis and a hundred and six degree thesis under his supervision.

The last Gold Medal awarded by the University of Barcelona was to honour Nicholas J. Mackintosh, expert in comparative psychology, last year. Previously, the honour had been awarded to Carmina Virgili (2011), Geology professor, and in 2009, the ethologist Jordi Sabater Pi and the journalist and literature critic Baltasar Porcel. The distinguished Catalan doctor and pacifist Moisès Broggi and the President of Vicens Vives publishing house Roser Rahola were also awarded with the Gold Medal in 2008. The Gold Medal honors natural or legal persons that have been recognized for their services at the University of Barcelona, or have given eminent and extraordinary services to society in the politic, social, economic, cultural and scientific fields.