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.

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