Ortega y Gasset and the Question of Modernity

Ed. Patrick H. Dust
Examines the work of Ortega y Gasset with respect to Modern and Post-modern culture, with particular emphasis on Technology and Reason.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Reading Ortega for Our Time

Patrick H. Dust

  1. Ortega and Modernity

    Ciriaco Morón Arroyo

  2. Ortega’s Anti-Modernity in Epistemology and Metaphysics

    Antón Donoso

  3. Towards a Theory of the Body: Ortega and His Sources

    Nelson Orringer

  4. Ortega, Human Consciousness and Modernity: A Historical Perspective

    Oliver H. Holmes

  5. Hermeneutics and Reason: Dilthey, Ortega and the Future of Hermeneutics

    Angel Medina

  6. Ortega’s Velázquez and the Tropics of Modernity

    Thomas Mermall

  7. On Technology and Humanism (An Imaginary Dialogue between Ortega and Heidegger)

    Pedro Cerezo Galán

  8. Freedom, Power and Culture in Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy of Technology

    Patrick H. Dust

  9. Ethics and the Problem of Modernity in the Meditations on Quijote

    Jaime de Salas

  10. The Revolt of the Masses: Ortega’s Critique of Modernity

    Anthony J. Cascardi

Afterword: A Spanish Modernity?

Wlad Godzich