Paco Vidarte


Francisco "Paco" Javier Vidarte Fernández was a Spanish philosopher, writer and LGBT activist.

Biography

After studying philosophy at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid/Spain, as well as psychoanalysis and pedagogy, Vidarte became a Doctor of Philosophy at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid with his dissertation about Jacques Derrida.
From the mid-90s onwards, Paco Vidarte, who was gay, was an active member of the gay movement in Spain, and especially Madrid. He was a member of the group "Radical Gai", and later became one of the leading theoretics and philosophers of the Spanish LGBT-groups. Vidarte was the first to discuss "Teoría Queer" at Spanish university and published an impressive, internationally renowned number of articles and books about J. Dérrida as well as about LGTB-theory.
He was a professor at UNED-university until his death in Madrid in 2008, caused by a malign form of lymphatic cancer and HIV.

Publications

He contributed to a number of translations, courses, and publications such as:
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