Antonio Escohotado
Spanish essayist and university professor · Spain · Writers · Lived 1941 to 2021 · aged 80
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Something wrong?Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, 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.
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Escohotado in Ibiza, 1976
From left to right, Jacobo Siruela, Antonio Escohotado, Albert Hofmann and Ernst Jünger, on a visit to the Liria palace in 1992.
Original cover of the illustrated edition of Historia general de las drogas (1998).
Trilogy of The Enemies of Commerce (Spanish: Los enemigos del comercio)
Antonio Escohotado during a conference at the Juan de Mariana Institute (Madrid, 2014).
Antonio Escohotado next to his son Jorge Escohotado during an interview in 2018 talking about the La Emboscadura publishing project.On YouTube
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Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, 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.
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