Biographical Itinerary. José Ortega y Gasset - Ramiro de Maeztu: epistolary (1908-1926).

Abstract

This fourth and final installment of the correspondence between José Ortega y Gasset and Ramiro de Maeztu covers from 1912 to 1926; although we only have thirteen letters: five from Ortega and eight from Ramiro. Of Ortega’s five, two of them are the request for a review and a brief affirmative response to a demand from Ramiro. Of Ramiro’s eight, one of them is a telegram and another, a brief note. The most important thing about this exchange is the process of ideological distancing between the two friends, which can be seen since 1912 and was consummated in 1915. The relationship with the Generation of 98 and specifically, with Azorín; the interpretation that Maeztu is spreading in Marburg of Ortega’s ideas and the War of 14 will be some of the topics of divergence; united with Ramiro’s approach to English union associations as a way out of statism and Western individualism.