Antonio Escohotado
Spanish philosopher and essayist (1941–2021)
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- Antonio Escohotado Espinosa (5 July 1941 – 21 November 2021), commonly called Antonio Escohotado , was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor.
- Escohotado gained public renown for his research on drugs and for his well-known anti-prohibitionist positions.
- The leitmotif of his work is, in the same way, an affirmation of freedom as an antidote to fear or the constraints that push the human being towards all kinds of servitude.
- Summary of intellectual trajectory Escohotado declared more than once "to have no other stimulus than self-clarification, nor a compass other than to find out the beginning and end of all things.
Antonio Escohotado Espinosa (5 July 1941 – 21 November 2021), commonly called Antonio Escohotado, was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor. His life's work primarily focused on law, philosophy and sociology, yet extended to many other disciplines. Escohotado gained public renown for his research on drugs and for his well-known anti-prohibitionist positions. One of his best known works is The General History of Drugs. The leitmotif of his work is, in the same way, an affirmation of freedom as an antidote to fear or the constraints that push the human being towards all kinds of servitude. His thought fits into the framework of libertarian liberalism.
Summary of intellectual trajectory
Escohotado declared more than once "to have no other stimulus than self-clarification, nor a compass other than to find out the beginning and end of all things." According to him, his work has developed as a process of self-learning of the variety of topics that he addresses by applying a method of genealogical analysis, a historical approach that chronologically organizes information and is suspicious of taxonomies.
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