José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero | |
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| Born | José Manuel Briceño Guerrero March 6, 1929 |
| Died | October 31, 2014 (aged 85) |
| Other names | Jonuel Brigue |
| Spouse | Jacqueline Clarac |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Website | https://www.jonuel-brigue.org/ |
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero (Palmarito, Apure, Venezuela, 6 March 1929 - Mérida, 31 October 2014)[1] was a Venezuelan writer, philologist and philosopher. A large part of his work was published under the pen-name Jonuel Brigue. The Spanish philosopher Juan Nuño considered Briceño Guerrero “the most radically original of Latin American philosophers.”[2]
Career
[edit]In 1951, Briceño Guerrero obtained a BA in Education in Caracas at the Instituto Pedagógico Nacional. In 1956 he obtained a Diploma in French Language and Culture at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1961 he completed his PhD at the University of Vienna with a thesis on ethnopsychology entitled “The Socio-Psychological Foundations of Latin American Spanish.”[3] While in Vienna he befriended Albin Lesky and Friedrich Kainz.
Upon his return to Venezuela, Briceño Guerrero worked for decades as Professor of Philosophy and Classical languages at the Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida.
Three fruitful sabbatical years during his academic career would mark his future works. First, in 1968, when he was a visiting lecturer of Greek philology and philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.[4] During this stay in Mexico he familiarised himself with the ideas of Leopoldo Zea and Alfonso Caso. Then, in 1970, he was a visiting lecturer at Moscow State University. And third, in 1979, when he did studies on liberation theology at the Universidad de Granada, Spain.[5]
In 1981 he was awarded the Venezuelan Premio Nacional de Ensayo, and in 1996 the Venezuelan National Prize for Literature.[6] Considered one of the most influential and original Latin-American thinkers,[7] some of his works have been translated into English, French and German, some as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.[8]
Works
[edit]- 1962: ¿Qué es la Filosofía?, Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes. Free PDF
- 1965: Dóulos Oukóon, Caracas, Arte. Free PDF
- 1966: América Latina en el Mundo, Caracas, Arte. Free PDF
- 1967: Triandáfila, Caracas, Arte. Free PDF
- 1970: El Origen del Lenguaje, Caracas, Monte Ávila. Free PDF
- 1977: La identificación Americana con la Europa Segunda, Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes. See preface
- Discurso Salvaje, Caracas, Fundarte.
- 1981: América y Europa en el Pensar Mantuano, Caracas, Monte Ávila Editores.
- Geraldine Saldate, Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes: Talleres Gráficos Universitarios.
- 1983: Recuerdo y Respeto para el Héroe Nacional (Speech delivered in representation of all Venezuelan universities upon the 200th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Simón Bolívar), Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes: Revista Azul. Free PDF
- 1984: Holadios, Caracas, Fundarte.
- 1987: Amor y Terror de las Palabras, Caracas, Mandorla. Free PDF
- 1990: El Pequeño Arquitecto del Universo, Caracas, Alfadil. Free PDF
- 1992: Anfisbena. Culebra Ciega, Caracas, Editorial Greca. Free PDF
- 1993: L’Enfance d’un Magicien (French translation of Amor y Terror de las Palabras by Nelly Lhermillier), Paris, Editions de L’Aube.
- 1994: Le Discours Sauvage (French translation of Discurso Salvaje by Nelly Lhermillier), Paris, Editions de L’Aube.
- El Laberinto de los Tres Minotauros, Caracas, Monte Ávila.
- 1996: “Les droits humains et les practiques de domination”, in: Qui sommes-nous, Paris, UNESCO.
- 1997: Diario de Saorge, Caracas, Fundación Polar.
- Discours des Lumières suivi de Discours des Seigneurs (French translation by Nelly Lhermillier), Paris, Editions de L’Aube – UNESCO.
- 1998: Esa Llanura Temblorosa, Caracas, Oscar Todtmann Editores. View partial PDF
- 2000: Matices de Matisse, Mérida, Universidad de Los Andes: Consejo de Publicaciones. View partial PDF
- 2001: Trece Trozos y Tres Trizas, Mérida, Ediciones Puerta del Sol. Free PDF
- 2002: El tesaracto y la tetractis, Caracas, Oscar Todtmann Editores.
- 2004: Mi casa de los dioses. Mérida, Ediciones del Vicerrectorado Académico, Universidad de Los Andes.
- 2004: Los recuerdos, los sueños y la razón. Mérida, Ediciones Puerta del Sol. Free PDF
- 2007: Para ti me cuento a China. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Puerta del Sol, 2007.
- 2009: La Mirada Terrible. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Puerta del Sol.
- 2010: Los chamanes de China. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Puertas del Sol-Universidad Experimental de Yaracuy.
- 2011: Operación Noé. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Puertas del Sol-Universidad Experimental de Yaracuy.
- 2011: El garrote y la máscara, Venezuela: Ediciones La Castalia.
- 2012: 3x1=4 (Retratos), Venezuela: Ediciones La Castalia.
- 2013: Dios es mi laberinto. Venezuela, Ediciones La Castalia.
- 2014: Cantos de mi Majano, Caracas: Fundación Editorial El perro y la rana.
- 2021: Love and terror of the words. English edition of "Amor y terror de las palabras" translation by Juan Acevedo: Ediciones Magnolia.
Other articles and minor works are referenced in the Spanish Wikipedia article.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "En la muerte de José Manuel Briceño Guerrero". Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
- ^ Obituary by Rafael Rattia, J.M. Briceño Guerrero (1929-2014): un archimandrita del espíritu, El Nacional, 4 November 2014.
- ^ Original PhD thesis title: Die völkerpsychologischen Grundlagen des lateinamerikanischen Spanisch. This would later become the book América Latina en el Mundo (1966).
- ^ Daniel González Dueñas, “80 años de José Manuel Briceño Guerrero”, blog Textos, imágenes, resonancias.
- ^ Author bio at CulturAdven.
- ^ “José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, Universitario Integral”, a biographic article by Prof. M.A. Rodríguez Lorenzo
- ^ French article by François Delprat.
- ^ Venezuelan works translated and published with UNESCO's support since 1948.
External links
[edit]- An obituary in English, with links.
- Universidad de Los Andes author page, with access to digital versions of several works
- The Savage Discourse. English translation of the basics of Briceño's thought on Latin America.
- “El poder de la palabra”, a short biographical film produced by the Venezuelan National Library.
- 1929 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century Venezuelan novelists
- Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
- Classical philologists
- Latin Americanists
- Philosophers of language
- Academic staff of the University of the Andes (Venezuela)
- University of Vienna alumni
- Venezuelan essayists
- Venezuelan novelists
- 20th-century Venezuelan philosophers
- 21st-century Venezuelan philosophers
- Venezuelan writers
- 20th-century Venezuelan male writers