Emilio Lledó Íñigo (Seville, 5 November 1927) is a Spanish philosopher.

He went to Germany to continue his studies in classical philosophy with Hans-Georg Gadamer, who helped him to finish his doctoral thesis by securing him a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

[2] In 1962, he again returned to Spain, taking a job as an instructor at the Instituto Núñez de Arce in Valladolid.

In 1978, he moved again, to the National University of Distance Education (UNED), where he remained until his retirement.

[3] According to Lledó, the history of philosophy should be understood as a form of "collective memory", embracing mankind's total development, that can be structured through three main elements: