Pablo González Casanova

Pablo González Casanova y del Valle^[a] (11 February 1922 – 18 April 2023) was a Mexican lawyer, sociologist, and historian. He was awarded UNESCO's International José Martí Prize in 2003.^[1][2]

Pablo González Casanova
González Casanova in 2007
Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
In office May 1970 (1970-05) – 1972[1]
Preceded by	Javier Barros Sierra
Succeeded by	Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
Personal details
Born	Pablo González Casanova y del Valle (1922-02-11)11 February 1922 Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico[1]
Died	18 April 2023(2023-04-18) (aged 101) Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Parent	Pablo González Casanova [es]
Occupation	Sociologist, lawyer, historian

González Casanova was born in Toluca, State of Mexico, in 1922. He took a degree in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and earned a master's degree in historical science at El Colegio de México. At the age of 28 he was awarded a doctorate in sociology by the Sorbonne.^[1]

He served as rector of the UNAM from 1970 to 1972 and, in 2011, he was elected an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Language.^[3] In addition to the International José Martí Prize, he received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1984.^[1]

He died in Tlalpan, Mexico City, in 2023, at the age of 101.^[1]

Publications

• Misoneísmo y modernidad en el siglo XVIII en México (1948)
• Una Utopía de América (Ed. El colegio de México)(1953)
• Estudio de la Técnica Social (1958)
• La literatura perseguida en la crisis de la Colonia (1958)
• La democracia en México (1965)
• Las categorías del desarrollo económico y la investigación en Ciencias Sociales (1977)
• Sociología de la explotación (1980)
• La nueva metafísica y el socialismo (1982)
• El estado de los partidos políticos en México (1983)
• Imperialismo y liberación en América Latina (1983)
• La hegemonía del pueblo y la lucha centro-americana (1984)
• Las Nuevas Ciencias y las Humanidades: De la Academia a la Política (Ed. Anthropos)(2004)