Nicola Chiaromonte and Elémire Zolla: Readers of Ortega y Gasset

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.187

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, Chiaromonte, Zolla, hombre-masa, intelectual

Abstract

A broader interest in the work of Ortega y Gasset has surged in Italy, especially since 1955, which led to a wider debate on the role of European cultural elites. Given the ample scope of the topic, this article will analyse the thinking of two of his most important readers of that time: Nicola Chiaromonte and Elémire Zolla. From the pages of the magazine Tempo Presente (1956), the first, and in the book Eclissi dell’intellettuale (1959), the second, both thinkers dialogue with Ortega to offer interesting reading keys on the crisis of intellectuals.

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Author Biography

Elena Trapanese, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Doctorate with International Mention from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has been “Cultrice della materia” in Sociology of Knowledge and Communication of Cultural Processes at the University of Naples Federico II, a resident fellow at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2017-2018), and a Talent Fellow of the Community of Madrid. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and Spanish Philosophical Thought at the UAM. Since January 2020, she has been the Principal Investigator of the project “Narratives in Transition: philosophy, literature, and social sciences towards the construction of a democratic state.”

Her most recent publications include: Sueños, tiempos y destiempos. El exilio romano de María Zambrano (Dreams, Times, and Untimes: The Roman Exile of María Zambrano) (2018); “Lecturas de Antígona o de la ciudad inclinada” (Readings of Antigone or the Sloping City), Las Torres de Lucca (2018); “José Bergamín: cuerpo y voz” (José Bergamín: Body and Voice), Iberic@l, 12 (2017); “Narrare, narrarsi l'esilio” (Narrating, Narrating Exile), Funes. Journal of narratives and social science, 1 (2017), “La España cóncava de Ramón Gaya” (The Concave Spain of Ramón Gaya), Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía 30-31 (2016), and the monograph “Cuerpo e identidad en la sociedad del leisure” (Body and Identity in the Leisure Society) in the journal Bajo Palabra. Journal of Philosophy (2016). She is also the author of the monograph Memory and Entrainment. The Word in María Zambrano (2010).

References

CHIAROMONTE, N. (1956): “La situazione di massa e i valori nobili”, Tempo Presente, 1, pp. 23-36.

— (1957): “Il compito dell’intellettuale”, en E. T FROSINI (ed.): Tempo Presente. Antología 1956-1968. Gli scritti piú significativi di una rivista simbolo. Florencia: Liberal, 1998, pp. 296-305.

CROCE, E. (1958): “Malraux 1957”, Il Punto, p. 16.

FROSINI, E. T. (ed.) (1998): Tempo Presente. Antología 1956-1968. Gli scritti piú significativi di una rivista simbolo. Florencia: Liberal.

MEREGALLI, F. (1984): “Ortega en Italia”, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 403-405, pp. 76-85.

— (1985) “Recepción de la obra de Ortega fuera del mundo hispanohablante”, Revista de Occidente, 48-49, pp. 135-160.

ORTEGA Y GASSET, J. (2004-2010): Obras completas, 10 vols. Madrid: Fundación José Ortega y Gasset / Taurus.

TRAPANESE, E. (2018): Sueños, tiempos y destiempos. El exilio romano de María Zambrano. Madrid: UAM Ediciones.

ZAMBRANO, M. (1958): Persona y democracia, en Obras completas, III. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutemberg, 2011, pp. 363-501.

ZOLLA, E. (1959): Eclissi dell’intellettuale. Milán: Bompiani.

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Published

2020-05-01 — Updated on 2020-05-01

How to Cite

Trapanese, E. (2020). Nicola Chiaromonte and Elémire Zolla: Readers of Ortega y Gasset. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (40), 127–135. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.187

Issue

No. 40 (2020)

Section

Ponencias