José Ortega y Gasset 1883

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José Ortega y Gasset 1883 - 1955 Spain

reality and truth are defined with respect to my life, a combination of myself and my circumstances ('yo soy yo y mi circunstancia'). Something is real only in so far as it is rooted and appears in my life. The self is not an entity separate from what surrounds it; there is a dynamic interaction and interdependence of self and things which together constitute reality. Because every life is the result of an interaction between self and circumstances, every self has a unique perspective and truth is perspectival.

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ADÁN EN EL PARAÍSO, 1910 - Adam In Paradise
MEDITACIONES DEL QUIJOTE, 1914 - Meditations on Quixoté
PERSONAS, OBRAS, COSAS, 1916
EL ESPECTADOR, COLECCIÓN DE ENSAYOS FILOSÓFICOS Y LITERARIOS, 1916-34 (8 vols., in 1 vol. 1943)
ESPAÑA INVERTEBRADA, 1921 (rev. in 1922 and 1934) - Invertebrate Spain
EL TEMA DE NUESTRO TIEMPO, 1923 - The Modern Theme
IDEAS SOBRE LA NOVELA, 1925
LAS DESHUMANIZACIÓN DEL ARTE, 1925 - The Dehumanization of Art - Taiteen irtautuminen inhimillisestä
TRÍPTICO, 1927-33 (3 vols.)
LA REBELIÓN DE LAS MASAS, 1929 -The Revolt of the Masses - Massojen kapina
MISIÓN DE LA UNIVERSIDAD, 1930 - Mission of the University
LA REDENCIÓN DE LAS PROVINCIAS Y DE LA DECENCIA NACIONAL, 1931
GOETHE DESDE DENTRO, 1932
ENSIMISMAMIENTO Y ALTERACIÓN; MEDITACIÓN DE LA TECNICA, 1939 - History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
EL LIBRO DE LAS MISIONES, 1940 - The Mission of the Librarian
TEORIA DE ANDALUCÍA Y OTROS ENSAYOS, 1942
OBRAS COMPLETAS, 1946-69 (11 vols.; 12 vols., 1983)
PAPELES SOBRE VELÁSQUEZ Y GOYA, 1950
EN TORNO A GALILEO, 1956
MEDITYACIÓN DE LA TÉCNICA, 1957
ENSAYOS ESCOGIDOS, 1957
EL HOMBRE Y LA GENTE, 1957 - Man and People
KANT, HEGEL, DILTHEY, 1958
MEDITACIÓN DEL PUEBLO JOVEN, 1958
QUÉ ES FILOSOFIA?, 1958 - What is Philosophy?
LA IDEA DE LA PRONCIPIO EN LEIBNIZ Y LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LA TEORÍOA DEDUCTIVA, 1958 - The Idea of Principle in Leibniz and the Evolution of Deductive Theory
History as a System and Other Essays, 1961
MISIÓN DEL BIBLIOTECARIO Y OTROS ENSAYOS AFINES, 1962
UNAS LECCIONES DE METAFÍSICA, 1966 (written in 1932-33) - Some Lessons in Metaphysics
The Dehumanization of Art, 1968
Velázquez, Goya and The Dehumanization of Art, 1972
ESCRITOS POLÍTICOS, 1973 (3 vols.)
PASADO Y PORVENIR PARA EL HOMBRE ACTUAL, 1974
SOBRE LA RAZÓN HISTÓRICA, 1979 - Historical Reason
ENSAYOS SOBRE LA 'GENERACIÓN DEL 98', 1981
MISIÓN DE LA UNIVERSIDAD Y OTROS ENSAYOS SOBRE EDICACIÓN Y PEDAGOGIA, 1981
OBRAS COMPLETAS, 1983 (12 vols.)
MEDITACIONES SOBRE LA LITERATURE Y EL ARTE, 1987

Carlos Ramos Mattei, Ethical Self-Determination in Don Jose Ortega Y Gasset (Peter Lang, 1988)

Oliver W. Holmes, Human Reality and the Social World: Ortega's Philosophy of History (Massachusetts, 1976)

Antonio Rodriguez Huescar, Jose Ortega Y Gasset's Metaphysical Innovation: A Critique and Overcoming of Idealism, ed. by Jorge Garcia-Gomez (SUNY, 1995)

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Quotations

"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
Jose Ortega y Gasset [The Revolt of the Masses]

We do not know what is happening to us, and this is precisely what is happening to us, not to know what is happening to us: the man of today is beginning to be disoriented with respect to himself, dépaysé, he is outside of his country, thrown into a new circumstance that is like a terra incognita. (1926)