Background
Pinera Llera, Huberto was born on June 21, 1911 in Cardenas, Cuba.
Pinera Llera, Huberto was born on June 21, 1911 in Cardenas, Cuba.
Doctorate in Philosophy, National University in Havana, 1942. Won the national Philosophy Prize in 1951 for his essay on ‘Philosophy of life and existential philosophy’.
Exiled in New York in 1960. Taught in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, 1961-1976. After retirement, moved to Miami-Dade Community College, Biscayne College and Florida Memorial College.
As a historian of philosophy Piñera identified and analysed the following periods in the history of ideas in Cuba: theological philosophy, antischolasticism, philosophical polemic, Krausism, Enrique José Varona and positivism, Rafael Montoro and Hegelianism, and contemporary philosophy. Beginning as an anti-positivist, Piñera reacted against philosophical movements that tended towards what he called ‘scientific reductionism’ and instead favoured philosophy that grew out of existentialism and focused on the individual. His brother is the writer Virgilio Piñera.