JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET HOY: entre masas, relatos y emociones
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Universidad de Salamanca
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ISSN: 2675-0805
Year of publication: 2019
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 42-48
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Humanidades & Educação
Abstract
This article aims to examine the possibility of reading Jose Ortega and Gasset from some themes of our present time. It is not a matter of translating his ideas to the present thoroughly, something that Ortega himself would criticize, but understanding the Spanish philosopher as a classic and applying his definition: for Ortega, 'there is no way to save the classic: using it without regard for our salvation to decide, dispensing with its classicism, bringing it to us, contemporizing it, injecting new pulse with the blood of our veins, whose ingredients are our passions [...] and our problems'. The essayistic character of Ortega's work, its unique way of speaking from his time and for his time, was intended to generate effects in one country and one epoch, but also to overcome the present and slip into the future. In this sense, the article examines the whole concept of “crisis” in the Ortegian mind, and since thenextends for some days.
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