Joaquin Xirau Palau

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Joaquin Xirau Palau (18951946). Refugee from Franco's Spain to Mexico, Xirau Palau had studied beside Ortega y Gasset, particularly inspired by German and Anglo-Saxon philosophy, such as Bergson, Husserl & Heidegger. After historical and critical studies on Descartes, Leibniz & Rousseau, Xirau affirmed his principal views in Amor y Mundo (Love and World, 1940).