Abstract

This paper evokes the life and the work of Vasco de Magalhães-Vilhena as a communist militant and a Marxist philosopher. These two dimensions are inseparable in his life’s exemplariness as much as in the intensive intellectual activity through which he influenced the philosophical culture of his lifetime as much as in the writings he left to the further generations. The PCP, having donated the Magalhães-Vilhena Library to the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, recognizes the value of this homage in the school where the foregoing professor lectured and fi nished his teaching practice.