The Incorruptible Core: The Problem of Authenticity in Ortega

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.435

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, authenticity, self, project, vocation, destiny, election, conscience, fantasy

Abstract

This paper seeks to research the meaning of authenticity in Ortegas thinking and her connection with the self into dialectic of life, and tries also to explain her problematic character since it involves at the same time fidelity to the vocation indicated by destiny and invention of himself by fantasy. The resultant paradox of this double consideration shows the originality of this approach as well as the maintained tension of this thinking between the temptation of a philosophy of life in the romantic tradition and the modern influence of Enlightenment.

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Author Biography

Eduardo Álvarez González, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

He is a full professor of philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on “The Theory of the Concept in Hegel’s Philosophy,” and he also teaches philosophical anthropology. His research focuses on the tradition of dialectical thought (Hegel, Marx, and Adorno) and phenomenological thought (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), modernity and the condition of the individual, the debate on humanism, and the question of the subject. Author of The Knowledge of Man: An Introduction to Hegel’s Thought (2001) and editor of the collective volume The Question of the Subject: The Debate on a Paradigm of Modernity (2007); among his numerous articles published in specialized journals, the following stand out: “The Ambiguity of Existence in Merleau-Ponty” (2011), “Dialectics and Subjectivity in Marx” (2011), “Self-Consciousness: Struggle, Freedom, and Misfortune” (2010), “The Question of the Subject in Sastre” (2009), “Dasein and the Critique of the Philosophy of the Subject in Being and Time” (2007), “The Question of the Subject in the Debate on Humanism” (2005), and “On the Concept of Free Will in Hegel” (1998).

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Published

2012-11-01 — Updated on 2012-11-01

How to Cite

Álvarez González, E. (2012). The Incorruptible Core: The Problem of Authenticity in Ortega. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (25), 163–183. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.435

Issue

No. 25 (2012)

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Articles