Memory of the West

Reyes Mate earned his doctorate from the Westfaellische Wilhelms-Universitaet of Muenster, Germany, and the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, Spain. He is currently Research Professor at the Instituto de Filosofia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (C. S. I. C.) in Madrid, where he directs the research project "La filosofia despues del Holocausto". Mate is the author of La razon de los vencidos (1991; translated into French in 1993 as La raison des vaincus); Memoria de Occidente: Actualidad de pensadores judios olvidados (1997); Heidegger y el Judaismo (1998); De Atenas a Jerusalen (1999); Penser en espagnol (2001); and Auschwitz: Actualidad moral y politica (2003). He is also the editor of La filosofia despues del holocausto (2002). Since 1989 he has been the director of the Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Filosofia, a thirty-five volume work with contributions by some five hundred Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scholars. He served as director of the Instituto de Filosofia of the C. S. I. C. from 1990 to 1998. In addition, he is a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of El Pais and El Periodico de Catalunya.