Life, Culture, and Art: Music in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset

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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.464

Keywords:

José Ortega y Gasset, music, new music, art, life, culture

Abstract

This analysis takes its motion from Ortega’s writings appeared in 1921 in the newspaper El Sol, and which he explicitly dedicated to music. Namely, the essays “Musicalia” and “Apatía artística” in which, from amidst the Spanish thinker’s copious publications, where music occupies a substantially marginal niche. Nevertheless, as this articles seeks to purport, music in Ortega’s oeuvre has interest from several points of views. Firstly, since Ortega’s considerations about music in the 1900s reveal some important themes of great relevance to scholarly work which attempt to trace back Ortega’s thought’s configuration and evolution.

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Author Biography

Clementina Cantillo, Universidad de Salerno

Full professor of the history of philosophy at the University of Salerno. Her main areas of research focus on modern and contemporary philosophical culture (from Descartes to Vico, from Hegelian thought to its interpretation in the work of Ortega y Gasset). Her most recent research analyzes the historical constitution and “articulation” of thought, alongside and beyond its explicit forms, through a “metaphorical-figurative” dimension. Since the beginning of her studies, she has also cultivated a philosophical-musical interest, which has given rise to numerous publications aimed at uncovering the connections between philosophy and music. Some of his publications include Forme e figure del pensiero (2006) and Concetto e metafora. Saggio sulla storia della filosofia in Hegel (2007), Musica e filosofía (2007), and Helden und Ritter: Substantielles und individuelles Handeln bei Hegel (2008).

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Published

2011-11-01 — Updated on 2011-11-01

How to Cite

Cantillo, C. (2011). Life, Culture, and Art: Music in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (23), 107–124. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.464

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No. 23 (2011)

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Articles