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Francisco Fernhndez Buey presents a portrait of the philosopher Manuel Sacristhn, the great figure of Spanish Marxism who died in 1985. He was at one and the same time an original theorist and an inspired political leader who lead the university rnovement against the dictatorship. He produced an original synthesis, borrowing simultaneously from Anglo-saxon philosophy (he was himself a logician and an epistemologist), phenomenology, as well as from Gramsci and Lukics. His thought, which is ultimately organized around an environmentalist and scientific vision, played an essential part in the growth of a living Marxism in Spain.