José Ortega y Gasset. Marginalia en Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.42

Abstract

Ortega's personal library offers us an exceptionally rich deposit from which to elaborate a concrete genealogy of Ortega's philosophy. The books follow one after the other through the generations, dialoguing with each other and revealing the personal history of Ortega's self-absorption, day after day, year after year -sometimes even specifying the exact date of the reading-, from the comments of the student he was to the harshest criticisms he wrote daily, for himself, until the end of his life.   If we publish the annotations and traces of reading that he left in his copy of Les fleurs du mal, it is because the critical reflections sketched by the Madrilenian in the margins of the first poems stand out for their length and theoretical originality among those included in the many books of his library (Baudelaire, circa 1922).

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Author Biographies

Xavier Ortega Martín, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Student-researcher in the Master of Political Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris (EHESS). He is currently working on his master's thesis on Ortega's philosophy of death from the perspective of political praxis. On the other hand, he has worked on Ortega's marginalia, developing with the help of Marcos Alonso and Juan Bagur an inventory of them, systematized thanks to the construction of a comprehensive database of Ortega's personal library located in the Ortega-Marañón Foundation.

Josu Rodríguez Llorente

D. in Philosophy from the UNED. He collaborates with Escuela de Escritores as a professor, teaching the courses: “Laboratorio de metáforas” and “Clínica de corrección de metáforas”. His main lines of research revolve around the theory of metaphor, philosophical anthropology and Spanish philosophy since the twentieth century. Member of the Hispanic Society of Philosophical Anthropology (SHAF). Editor at Editorial Urdimbre. He is part of the group of independent writers “Cantina Poética”.

References

Baudelaire, C. (circa 1922): Les fleurs du mal. Precedidas de una reseña de Théophile Gautier. París: Calmann-Lévy. 1.ª ed. definitiva de 1868 (1.ª ed. de 1857).

Baudelaire, C. (1982): Las flores del mal. Barcelona: Ediciones Orbis.

Baudelaire, C. (2021): El pintor de la vida moderna. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

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

Taylor, C. (1996): Las fuentes del yo. La construcción de la identidad moderna. Bar- celona: Ediciones Paidós.

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Published

2024-05-01 — Updated on 2024-05-01

How to Cite

Ortega Martín, X., & Rodríguez Llorente, J. (2024). José Ortega y Gasset. Marginalia en Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (48), 5–26. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.42

Issue

No. 48 (2024)

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Archive Documents