Jorge Millas (1917–1982). An Ortegian profile of a Chilean philosopher

He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a PhD in philology from the University of Pisa. He has taught for more than fifteen years at the University of Siena and is currently a tenured professor of Philosophy of Literature and History of Hispanic Thought at the University of Turin. Furthermore, he has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Münster (1999-2000), Tel Aviv (2012-2013), and Valparaíso (2017-2018). His research focuses mainly on philosophical Hispanism, the relationship between philosophy and literature, the history of ideas, and the hermeneutics of Hispanic culture in a European context and from philological and philosophical perspectives. He is the author of, among others, Olvidar a Schopenhauer. Filosofía y literatura en la crisis de fin de siglo en España (Forgetting Schopenhauer: Philosophy and Literature in the Fin de Siècle Crisis in Spain) (ed., 2016), Intelectuales y reformistas. The Generation of 1914 in Spain and America (ed., 2014), The One, the Other, the Same. Vindication of J. Martínez Ruiz (2012), The Veiled Tradition. Ortega and Humanist Thought (1999). He has also edited critical editions of María Zambrano's España. Pensamiento, poesía y una ciudad (2008), Azorín's El Político (2007), Fiesta de Aranjuez (2005), Ortega y Gasset's España invertebrada (2002), and Azorín's Diario de un enfermo (2000). He has translated Espacio by Juan Ramón Jiménez (2013) and El artista y la ciudad by Eugenio Trías (2005) into Italian and has compiled María Zambrano's Italian writings, Per abitare l'esilio (2006).