Joxe Azurmendi Otaegi was born on 19 March 1941 and is a Basque writer, philosopher, essayist and poet.
18 Facts About Joxe Azurmendi
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Joxe Azurmendi has published numerous articles and books on ethics, politics, the philosophy of language, technique, Basque literature and philosophy in general.
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Joxe Azurmendi is member of Jakin and the director of Jakin irakurgaiak, a publishing house which has published over 40 books under his management.
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Joxe Azurmendi collaborated with the Klasikoak publishing firm in the Basque translations of various philosophical works and was one of the founders of Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea.
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Joxe Azurmendi is currently a Professor of Modern Philosophy and a lecturer at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.
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Joxe Azurmendi's essays cover modern European topics in great depth and knowledge.
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Joxe Azurmendi has incorporated the philosophy and thinking of European thinkers, especially German ones.
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Joxe Azurmendi is, in the opinion of many, one of the most prolific and erudite thinkers in the Basque Country.
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Joxe Azurmendi studied philosophy and theology at The University of the Basque Country, Rome and Munster.
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Joxe Azurmendi has collaborated closely and uninterruptedly with the magazine since its restoration.
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Joxe Azurmendi's work emerged and developed during a period marked by a crisis of culture, politics and values.
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Joxe Azurmendi criticises the exploitation of morality, or in other words, how politicians, instead of solving the problems facing them in their various areas or fields, flee instead to moral ground to hide their responsibilities under the cloak of supposedly absolute moral principles:.
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Joxe Azurmendi has made an important contribution in questioning the canonical interpretations which have been constructed regarding different issues.
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Some topics Joxe Azurmendi deeply develops in his essays first appeared in his poetry of youth.
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Joxe Azurmendi is within the Basque poetry of the 60s which shows the fight against the tradition, the old faith and the dogmatic certainties:.
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Joxe Azurmendi dedicates a large part of his work to recovering and reinterpreting Basque thinkers, breaking through and dismantling numerous stereotypes.
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Joxe Azurmendi is an author who has worked from within and for Basque culture.
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Joxe Azurmendi's Basque is modern and standard and he demonstrates great knowledge of the language, and richness and variety of expression.