José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955)
Author of The Revolt of the Masses
About the Author
Essayist and philosopher, a thinker influential in and out of the Spanish world, Jose Ortega y Gasset was professor of metaphysics at the University of Madrid from 1910 until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The Revolt of the Masses, his most famous work, owes much to post-Kantian show more schools of thought. Ortega's predominant thesis is the need of an intellectual aristocracy governing in a spirit of enlightened liberalism. Although Franco, after his victory in the civil war, offered to make Ortega Spain's "official philosopher" and to publish a deluxe edition of his works, with certain parts deleted, the philosopher refused. Instead, he chose the life of a voluntary exile in Argentina, and in 1941 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. He returned to Spain in 1945 and died in Madrid. Ortega's reformulation of the Cartesian cogito displays the fulcrum of his thought. While Rene Descartes declared "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), Ortega maintained "Cogito quia vivo" (I think because I live). He subordinated reason to life, to vitality. Reason becomes the tool of people existing biologically in a given time and place, rather than an overarching sovereign. Ortega's philosophy consequently discloses affinities in its metaphysics to both American pragmatism and European existentialism in spite of its elitism in social philosophy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by José Ortega y Gasset
España invertebrada : bosquejo de algunos pensamientos históricos ; La deshumanización del arte ; y otros ensayos de… (1967) 18 copies
Pidiendo un Goethe desde dentro ; En torno a Galileo ; Historia como sistema ; Ideas y creencias ; Prólogo a… (2014) 11 copies
Europa Y La Idea De Nacion/ Europe and The Nation Idea (Obras De Jose Ortega Y Gasset (Ogg)) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 7 copies
España invertebrada y otros ensayos (El libro de bolsillo - Bibliotecas de autor - Biblioteca Ortega y Gasset) (2014) 6 copies
Mision de la universidad y otros ensayos afines — Author — 6 copies
Ortega y Gasset: Una educacion para la vida : antologia (Biblioteca pedagogica) (Spanish Edition) (1986) 6 copies
Mision De La Universidad Y Otros Ensayos Sobre Educacion Y Pedagogia/ University Mission and Other Education and… (1982) 6 copies
Meditacion del pueblo joven y otros ensayos sobre America/ Meditation of the Young Town and Essays about America (Obras… (1981) 5 copies
Meditación de nuestro tiempo : las conferencias de Buenos Aires, 1916-1928 (Seccion de obras de filosofia) (Spanish… (1996) 5 copies
Ideas sobre el teatro y la novela/ Ideas On the Theater and Novels (Obras De Jose Ortega Y Gasset (Ogg)) (Spanish… (1980) 5 copies
Obras completas, T. 3 (Artículos -1917-1920-; España invertebrada; Artículos -1922-; El tema de nuestro tiempo;… (1994) 4 copies
Historia como sistema 3 copies
La deshumanizacion del arte. Ideas sobre la novela (Castalia Didactica) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 3 copies
Historia como sistema y Del Imperio romano — Author — 3 copies
Investigaciones psicologicas/ Psychological Investigations (Obras de José Ortega y Gasset) (Spanish Edition) (1982) 3 copies
Pasado y porvenir para el hombre actual (Coleccion El Arquero ; 41) (Spanish Edition) (1974) 3 copies
Obras completas, T. 1 (Artículos -1902-1913-; Vieja y nueva política; Meditaciones del Quijote; Artículos -1915-;… (1993) 3 copies
Gesammelte Werke, 6 Bde. 3 copies
Sus mejores páginas 3 copies
Revista de occidente 3 copies
La Mission du bibliothécaire 3 copies
El espectador. Tomo III 3 copies
Obras completas, T. 6 (Historia como sistema; Del Imperio Romano; Teoría de Andalucía y otros ensayos, Prólogos… (1997) 3 copies
Sul romanzo 2 copies
Obras de José Ortega y Gasset 2 copies
L'HISTOIRE COMME SYSTEME 2 copies
Ortega Y Gasset, José - El Espectador / José Ortega Y Gasset ; Selección Y Prólogo De… (1969) 2 copies
Dos ensayos sobre Mirabeau: Mirabeau o el político, Mirabeau o la política (Cuadernos de La Gaceta)… (1993) 2 copies
Revista de occidente. 152 — Editor — 2 copies
La redención de las provincias y la decadencia nacional : artículos de 1927 y 1930 (1931) — Author — 2 copies
TEORÍA DE ANDALUCÍA Y OTROS ENSAYOS 2 copies
El Quijote en Ortega 2 copies
Pencerahan Cinta 1 copy
傍観者―エル・エスペクタドール (筑摩叢書) 1 copy
Вибрані твори 1 copy
Эстетика. Философия культуры 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 118 1 copy
Pensare e credere 1 copy
El Espectador 4 1 copy
El espectador. Libro RTV nª4 1 copy
Tema vremii noastre 1 copy
Kant. Hegel. Dilthey 1 copy
VIEJA Y NUEVA POLÍTICA y otros escritos programáticos (Biblioteca del 14) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 1 copy
Этюды об Испании 1 copy
Essays 1 copy
Synspunktet i kunsten 1 copy
Ideas y creencias 1 copy
Viajes y paises 1 copy
מסות על אהבה 1 copy
Une méditation sur l'Europe 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 139 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 138 1 copy
Unas lecciones de metafísica 1 copy
Caracteres Y Circunstancias 1 copy
Qu'est-ce que lire ? 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 121 1 copy
Kutlelerin Isyani 1 copy
Azorin 1 copy
Notas 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 120 1 copy
The Dehumanizing of Art 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 124 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke 4 [...] 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 126 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke 3 [...] 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke 2 [...] 1 copy
Gesammelte Werke 1 [...] 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 119 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 149 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 150 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 125 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 128 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 129 1 copy
Revista de occidente N°62 1 copy
Úkol naší doby 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 151 1 copy
Revista de occidente. Año XIII. N° CXLV, CXLVI, CXLVII — Editor — 1 copy
Cuadernos de Adán 1 1 copy
El Espectador. Tomo VIII 1 copy
Gespräch beim Golf — Author — 1 copy
Opazovalec 1 copy
História como sistema / Mirabeau ou o Político — Author — 1 copy
Obras 1 copy
Lo que no se dice con una antología teofánica de textos de Ortega y Gasset y varios documentos 1 copy
Obras completas (5 vols.) 1 copy
Mocedades (Las ermitas de Córdoba - Las fuentecitas de Nuremberga - Renán - Adán en el paraíso - Al margen del… (1956) 1 copy
El Espectador I y II (El Libro De Bolsillo - Bibliotecas De Autor - Biblioteca Ortega Y Gasset) 1 copy
Revista de occidente. 148 — Author — 1 copy
Διαστοχασμός της Ευρώπης 1 copy
Το θέμα του καιρού μας 1 copy
Velazquez. Goya 1 copy
Meditation de la Tecnica 1 copy
El hombre y la gente. Tomo I 1 copy
El Espectador Tomos III y IV 1 copy
Meditación del pueblo joven. 1 copy
Qu'est-ce que lire ? 1 copy
Meditacion del pueblo joven 1 copy
Po co wracamy do filozofii? 1 copy
Η επιλογή στον έρωτα 1 copy
Revista de occidente. Año XIV. N° CLV — Editor — 1 copy
Obras completas V 1 copy
Obras completas VI 1 copy
Obras completas I 1 copy
Obras completas II 1 copy
La idea del teatro: Y otros escritos sobre teatro (Clásico de Biblioteca Nueva) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 copy
Meditacin̤ de la tčnica 1 copy
Meditación de europa 1 copy
El espectador 1 copy
Velasquez 1 copy
El Espectador 1 copy
El espectador 1 copy
Que ̌filosofia? 1 copy
Unas lecciones de Metafísica 1 copy
Was ist Philosophie? 1 copy
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- Ortega y Gasset, José
- Birthdate
- 1883-05-09
- Date of death
- 1955-10-18
- Burial location
- Cementario Sacramental de San Isidro, Madrid, Spain
- Gender
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- Spain
- Birthplace
- Madrid, Spain
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Places of residence
- Madrid, Spain
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Portugal - Education
- University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Central University of Madrid, Spain [now Complutense University of Madrid] (PhD ∙ 1904 ∙ philosophy)
San Estanislao in Miraflores del Palo, Málaga, Spain - Occupations
- philosopher
political activist
Deputy in Assembly of Second Republic, Leon
Civil governor, Madrid
Professor
essayist - Relationships
- Ortega Spottorno, José (son)
Ortega, Soledad (daughter)
Marías, Julián (pupil)
Topete, Rosa Spottorno (wife) - Organizations
- La Agrupacion al servicio de la republica
University of Madrid
University of San Marcos
Escuela Superior del Magisterio de Madrid
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His view communicates the idea that Paleolithic man, who conducted himself as a hunter as a means to an end rather than as a leisurely pursuit, was saturated by instinct and had only brief flareups of primitive reason. Modern man feels a sense of nostalgia concerning this prior state and, in the meantime, remains somewhat resentful of his domestication, so decides to allocate time to an artificial return to it so as to lose himself within the bosom of Nature and demonstrate (through the game of the hunt and his self-imposed limits warranting off undue excess - dynamiting a lake doesn't qualify as hunting) the clear order he manifests in his action as possessing a supremacy over the prey he hunts.
This short book reminds me greatly of a terrible night of hunting I carried out as a boy on the eve of my adolescence. Such an event pretty much consisted of me laying prone in a bush during a deep fog and randomly flashing a torch on and off to see whether or not I would catch a rabbit off guard. I was positively freezing my nuts off in the midst of some poor bastard's aristocratic private estate while my father and his mutual friend wandered off into the woods, maybe he's still in denial, because I definitely heard some strange noises echo throughout that infernal night which belonged to neither fox nor hare. Alas, I begrudgingly shot at a rabbit around an hour or so later and to this day still have no idea if I hit him or not, after this book I wish I had hit that fuzzy little fucker. I don't think anyone felt like they possessed much supremacy that night....… (more)