Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez (September 17, 1915 – July 8, 2011)[1] was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia.

After studying at the University of Madrid, Vázquez emigrated to Mexico in 1939 with thousands of other intellectuals, scientists and artists following the defeat of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, in which he participated as editor of the central publication of the Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU) “Ahora”.

[3] Sánchez also held honorary doctoral degrees from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the University of Cádiz (Spain).

[4] He embraced Marxism, although an open, renovating, critical and non-dogmatic version of it.

In fact, The Philosophy of Praxis was published at around the same time as Herbert Marcuse was writing his One Dimensional Man.