Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega s most important works, Que 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 Que 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)."
Synopsis
Jos Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish essayist and philosopher, remains one of the most famous Spanish philosophers of the last century. Jorge Garc a-G mez is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University and has translated several books, including Antonio Rodr guez Hu scar's Jos Ortega y Gasset's Metaphysical Innovation: A Critique and Overcoming of Idealism, also published by SUNY Press, and Jos Ortega y Gasset's Psychological Investigations.