What is Knowledge? (Latin Amer Iberian Thought) - Softcover

Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791451720 ISBN 13: 9780791451724

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega’s most important works, ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay “Ideas y creencias.” This is Ortega’s attempt to systematically present the foundations of his metaphysics of human life and, on that basis, to provide a radical philosophical account of knowledge. In so doing, he criticizes idealism and overcomes it. Accordingly, this book goes well beyond a treatise on epistemology; in fact, as understood in modern philosophy, this discipline and its questions are shown to be derivative and, in that sense, they are transcended here by Ortega’s systematic effort.

Written during the time of his maturity, these works are representative of his fruitful and radical period. Both ¿Qué es conocimiento? and “Ideas y creencias” are equally decisive not only for the understanding and radical completion of Ortega’s work, but also for their relevance to the work of continental philosophers during the same period and for years to come (e.g., Husserl, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and others).

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About the Author

José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist and philosopher, remains one of the most famous Spanish philosophers of the last century.

Jorge García-Gómez is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University and has translated several books, including Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar’s José Ortega y Gasset’s Metaphysical Innovation: A Critique and Overcoming of Idealism, also published by SUNY Press, and José Ortega y Gasset’s Psychological Investigations.

Review

“...a highly original, very readable book that carries the reader’s interest from lecture to lecture in unanticipated ways. The lucid journey imaginatively rethinks many common philosophical starting points, habits of thought, and standard articulations regarding such questions as what it is to philosophize, how most accurately to describe human life and its realities, how to set up and describe the process of knowing, and what it is that we can count on in human life.” ― Review of Metaphysics

"As to the intellectual significance of this new book by Ortega,it is destined to be one of the most important parts of his legacy." -- from the Spanish editor's note by Paulino Garagorri

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0791451720
• ISBN 13: 9780791451724
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264