Ángel Cristóbal Montes

Ángel Cristóbal Montes

Born in Zaragoza in 1935, he studied Law at the University of that city and emigrated to Venezuela in 1959, in whose Central University began to teach Roman law and civil law, which later extended to Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Until 1972 he remained in Venezuela in the world of law in its different aspects. He publishes ten legal books. Returning to Spain, he develops an intense teaching work at the University of Zaragoza, where he pursues his academic career, first as an extraordinary professor and then as a professor of civil law. He is currently professor emeritus and explains dialogues Philosophy. To this stage corresponds the publication of fifteen new legal books. He participates in the democratic life of his country as constituent deputy, advisor of the Government of Aragon, Deputy to the Cortes de Aragón and president of this autonomous institution during the period 1991-1995. He writes regularly on political issues in the national press and in the Aragon, and this work is collected in seven compiling political books, apart from fragments of political Memoirs and a melancholy Confessions. In 2006 publishes in this same Editorial its first book of philosophy, Philosophical Meditations. Then there would come, also in Trotta, Love, Friendship and its Metamorphosis (2007), Philosophical Glossary (2008), The Blessing-Curse of Thought (2009), Rethinking Heraclitus (2011) and The Human Puzzle (2013). It now touches on the emergence of philosophical and political Essays, a hybrid book, in which attempts are made to combine and reconcile philosophical reflection and political analysis.