Emilio Uranga
Emilio Uranga González (1921 - October 31, 1988) was a Mexican philosopher. Biography
Emilio was born in 1921 in Mexico City. He studied at high school hermanos de las escuelas Cristianas, and proceeded to National Autonomous University of Mexico to study medicine in 1941 and left the university in 1944 to study philosophy. He made contact with the philosophical school of José Gaos, and between 1947 and 1948 he joined and lead the Groupo Hiperion, with philosophers Ricardo Guerra, Jorge Portilla, Salvador Reyes Nevares, Fausto Vega, and Luis Villoro, and acted as an  introducer of French existentialism to Mexico and developed a "Philosophy of Mexicanness". References

Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
1921 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Mexican philosophers