by José Ortega y Gasset · Salvat Editores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434573499
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«El espectador» is a selection of essays by José Ortega y Gasset, published by Salvat Editores in hardback (272 pages, in Spanish).
This selection brings together essays written between 1916 and 1930 in which Ortega y Gasset reflects on society, history and the events of his time with a critical eye. The author understands philosophy as a literary genre linked to life and circumstances, and sees «El Espectador» as an editorial project and a vital attitude.
Selection and prologue by Gaspar Gómez de la Serna. 1973 edition.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish philosophy and in the essay as a literary genre.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
