He was the author of a number of essays known for their elegant and witty style. Jose ortega y gasset 18831955 spanish philosopher and statesman. What ortega y gasset wrote is not only valid for his time but it is also relevant to our postcold war world of globalization and diversity. Quotations by jose ortega y gasset, spanish philosopher, born may 9, 1883. Revolt of the masses 1930 he urges that countries should be ruled by the intellectual elite to avoid the decaying influence of mob control on the arts and government. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. It created, he said, a need for specialization which led to a stunted humanity characterized by mediocrity and the median man of which he observed. Ortega y gasset was born in a wealthy family in madrid in 1883. Ortega was the first professional philosopher to make technology an explicit theme for critical reflection. Among those strongly influenced by ortega y gasset were luis bunuel, manuel garcia morente, xavier zubiri, ignacio ellacuria, emilio komar, jose gaos, luis. Ortega y gasset disagrees with the frenchman, and presents his own alternative view of how love works. Luego, entre 1905 y 1907, realizo estudios en leipzig, nuremberg, colonia, berlin y marburgo, alemania.
Love in stendhal looks at a work by french writer stendhalde lamour on love. Jose ortega y gasset philosophy of love lecture slides docsity. In this book ortega y gasset takes on the subject of love. Publication date 20070 usage attributionnoncommercialnoderivs topics filosofia,vallota,cultural,caracas, ortega. Jose ortega y gasset, amar and querer, love and desire, microscopic, negative and macroscopic, spinozas.
Summary of the book the revolt of the masses by jose ortega y gasset chapter 1 the coming of the masses in this chapter, jose. Full text of the revolt of the masses jose ortega y. Jose ortega y gasset 18831955 was a prolific and distinguished spanish philosopher in. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. This paper is also available in pdfformat at cfes web site. Ortega y gasset, phenomenology and quixote springerlink. Tell me what you pay attention to and i will tell you who you are. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. Top 25 quotes by jose ortega y gasset of 169 az quotes. Jose ortega y gasset was born in madrid on 9 may 1883.
Jose ortega y gasset the spanish philosopher who saw life as an intellectual adventure. He was, along with kant, schopenhauer, and nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism. In studies on love, we can find some of the keys that will help us avoid shipwrecking in the always choppy swell of amorous feelings. Create amazing picture quotes from jose ortega y gasset quotations.
Curated by ortega y gasset projects codirector zahar vaks. His philosophy has been characterized as a philosophy of life that comprised a longhidden beginning in a pragmatist. As it is a timeless thinking, surely it can be read and thought by the learned individuals in the 21st. For ortega, phenomenology meant giving up positivism, natualism and realism to discover the world of things which i must be. Ortega was born in madrid and became a teacher to an entire generation of writers in spain and latin america. The family was definitively of spains endofthecentury liberal and educated bourgeoisie. Jose ortega y gasset 18831955 was a prolific and distinguished spanish philosopher in the twentieth century. The revolt of the masses jose ortegay gassett ortega y gasset, jose 18831955 spanish philosopher, essayist, and critic. According to ortega y gasset, stendhal exaggerates the power of fraud that resides in love. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. The spanish philosopher jose ortega y gasset 18831955 made a name for himself in the 1930s with revolt of the masses, a book which lamented the industrial eras effect on western culture. The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent. Ortega y gassets influence was considerable, not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings, but also because his writings did not require that the reader be well read in technical. His philosophy has been characterized as a philosophy of life that comprised a longhidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics.
Here and there, a sentence would be underlined, noting my emphatic agreement. But greenbergs definition of modernism has never been adequate to define the full range of 20thcentury modern art. Organized by ortega y gasset projects codirector eleanna anagnos. If my pristine hardcover copy of meditations on hunting was a paperback, it would be heavily marked up. Ortega y gasset influenced existentialism and the work of martin heidegger. Ortegas bestknown work, the revolt of the masses, was published in. A different definition of modernism is that outlined by the spanish philosopher jose ortega y gasset in his 1925 essay, the dehumanization of art. Ortega y gassets meditations on quixote is important for the transmission of phenomenology into literary criticism. Ortega first used this quote in a lecture given in 1916. Why the masses intervene in everything, and why their intervention is solely by violence. This little book, written in 1942 by spanish philosopher. The role of choice in love points out that we do not fall in love at random, with just anyonethere is a pattern that can be observed.
Full text of the revolt of the masses jose ortega y gasset 1932 see other formats. Ortegas perception of human life as fundamental reality and as a. Mostly, though, the margins would be crammed with question marks, exclamation points, and words of protest. Preliminary meditation, meditations on quixote 1914. The revolt of the masses, by gasset, is a paradoxical essay in an era of runs and falls and calm in the storm, proud but not pretentious exploration of the problem of modern man according to ortega y gasset, manmass through some of its characteristics as in the first place, forgetting or rather the concealment of the past. Enjoy the best jose ortega y gasset quotes at brainyquote. Va,enconsecuencia,fluyendobajola tierraespiritualdeestosensayos. Jose ortega y gasset stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Jose ortega y gasset 18831955 was a relentless missionary for. Philosopher, educationist, writer, university teacher, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic. Jose ortega y gasset international bureau of education unesco.
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