The crisis of our time. Analysis of the concept of History in José Ortega y Gasset

Abstract

This essay intends to explore the concept of History in three books of the spanish philosopher: The rebellion of the masses, History as a system and Hegel's centenary. The route that is thought to carry out does not pretend to exhaust a definition so rich in meaning in the work of Ortega y Gasset. Undertaking a campaign of this magnitude would have involved extensive work. What really interests me is to address four specific aspects that have been of my interest for some time: 1) The injustice surrounding a political reading of his work, often making a mutilation of his philosophical sense. 2) We will review some aspects of the spanish civil war as well as the so-called silence of Ortega, we will also analyze the third visit that the Spanish philosopher made to Argentina and the adverse climate to which his person and his thought will have to face. 3) The urgency of thinking a philosophy that breaks with the historicist tradition of Hegel to interpret the present; in this last point is where I will analyze his concept of History.4) Analyze the irruption of ideologies in his time and the impact they had on the masses (middle man).