Antonio Escohotado
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Escohotado in 2014 | |
| Born | Antonio Escohotado Espinosa 5 July 1941 |
| Died | 21 November 2021 (aged 80) Ibiza, Spain |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Post-Hegelianism Liberalism Post-Marxism (early) |
| Main interests | Liberalism, metaphysics, culture, ethics, freedom, history of communism, sociology, drugs, politics, dialectic, Marxism, fractal, drug liberalization, history of commerce, political philosophy, history of slavery, law |
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Antonio Escohotado Espinosa (5 July 1941 – 21 November 2021), 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.