Na okraj kongresu o přítomnosti Ortegova odkazu

• Authors: José Lasaga

Title variants

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In the margin of a congress on the presence of Ortega’s legacy

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author was the leading organiser of the international congress Half a century after Ortega — the reception of his work (1955-2005), which took place in Madrid, October 2005. In the first four parts of his commentary, he illuminates the socio-political and ideological circumstances which have prevented the flourishing in Spain of the unusually valuable philosophical and cultural legacy of J. Ortega y Gasset in the forty-year period since his death. He was in the paradoxical situation, which has not been a mere result of the conflict between the dominant intolerant Catholic ideology and Ortega’s opinions and influence, but which has also been the result of a historically-conditioned ignorance which has led to the indifference, or even resistance, among those who stood in opposition to Francoism and who ended up succumbing to the once fashionable, radical intellectual tendencies. Only at the centenary of Ortega’s birth (1983) did we witness the beginning of an unbiased reappraisal of his work and a recognition of its contemporary relevance. In the fifth part, the author provides a concise characterisation of the above-mentioned congress, which witnessed a further stage in this development: the lectures of the participants show that Ortega has become one of the classics of Hispanic culture, whose philosophy remains a unique contribution in a world context.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 709-721
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

José Lasaga

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic