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Eliseo Vivas (July 13, 1901 – August 28, 1991) "Vivas, Eliseo (1901-91)", in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, John R. Shook, ed. (A&C Black, 2005) p2487 was a 20th-century philosopher and literary theorist.
As a child, his family fled Colombia in response to the presidency of Cipriano Castro. They went to Curacao, then Paris, then, in 1915, to New York City. Vivas served as the consul in Philadelphia, then turned to academia studying or teaching at, among other schools, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, Northwestern University, Rockford College, and the University of Iowa.
Vivas's philosophy was essentially conservative, and he relied on poetry as metaphysics while abandoning naturalism.Curtler, Hugh Mercer. " Vivas, Eliseo" Date: 31 August 2001. Accessed 20 October 2015. He arrived at his conclusions after trying on many schools, "from Marxism to conservatism, and from naturalism to value realism."Curtler, Hugh M. " Eliseo Vivas, 1950." Modern Age. Summer/Fall 1982. Accessed 20 October 2015.
His papers are collected by Northwestern University. Guide to the Eliseo Vivas (1901-1993) Papers
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