Notes about the Phenomenology of José Gaos

Abstract

For a certainty, Jose Gaos has been the Mexican philosopher who has contributed the most to the spreading of Phenomenology in Mexico.* Perhaps it is high time that his countless courses, essays and conferences devoted directly or indirectly to Phenomenology be remembered; part of his effort that it is certainly not necessary to call to mind are his translations of some of the main works of Husserl, including those two that Gaos calls “classics”: Logische Untersuchungen and the First Book of Ideen. They are still present, as they have been during the last half century, to those who approach with more or less care the work of Husserl in all Spanish-speaking countries.1