Alejandro Rossi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alejandro Rossi

Mexican philosopher

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1932

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 05-Jun-2009

Profession: writer, philosopher

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alejandro Rossi (Alessandro Rossi; September 22, 1932 – June 5, 2009) was born in Florence, Italy of Venezuelan mother and Italian father) was an Italian-Venezuelan writer. Alejandro Rossi wrote philosophical essays, short stories and the following books: Lenguaje y significado (Language and Meaning) (Siglo XXI, 1968, FCE, 1995, 7th edition); Manual del Distraído Manual of the Absent-minded (J.
Mortiz, 1978, Anagrama, 1980, Monte Avila, 1987, FCE, 1992, 6th edition); Sueños de Occam (Occam's Dreams) (UNAM, 1982); La fábula de Las Regiones (the Fable of The Regions) (El Equilibrista, 1989), Edén: Vida imaginada (FCE, 2006).
Ortega y Gasset in collaboration (FCE, 1984); he edited José Gaos' Anthology: Filosofía de la Filosofía (Philosophy of Philosophy) (Crítica, 1989).
Rossi won the Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura (National Literary and Linguistics Prize) in 1999. Rossi's writing is marked by a rich language that plays with generic definitions.[1]