Ortega’s Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Nationalism, and the American Contemporary Intellectual
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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.415Keywords:
Ortega y Gasset, Kant, Spengler, cosmopolitanism, intellectuals, United States, nationalismAbstract
Ortega’s theory of the cosmopolitan intellectual –particularly, his relationship to the nation-state and to nationalist movements– is rarely discussed in the United States, despite the fact that cosmopolitanism has generated immense academic debate since the end of the Cold War. Ortega positioned his cosmopolitanism between the formulations offered by Kant and the rejections lodged by Spengler in an effort to disentangle intellectuals from their affiliations with nationalist and imperialist movements around World War I. This essay brings Ortega’s thought to bear on these similar, intersecting issues in contemporary American intellectualism and proposes that his reconciliation of national identity and cosmopolitanism offers a promising route nearly a century later for American intellectuals who seek to integrate their national culture in the world without further dominating it.
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