Ortega

Philosophy or "thought"? This issue, which reflects the established tendency to marginalize the greatest philosophers of the Hispanic sphere in the Western tradition, has particularly affected the reception and study of the work of Ortega y Gasset, a tireless renewer of critical and methodological perspectives, Europeanist, rationalist. and, above all, promoter of a notable change of direction in Spanish philosophy whose fruits are still palpable today. A privileged reader of "Don Quixote" and the philosophical proposals of his contemporaries, as well as an active professor, frequent collaborator in the press and charismatic lecturer, Ortega had an intense and busy life. Based on detailed research, this biography sticks to it in order to illuminate the specific events that marked the development of his thinking and his personality, as well as the numerous legends that arose around his magnetic figure.