Ortega according to the Chicago group: Chancellor Hutchins and the University Mission.

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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.46

Abstract

“The great innovator of university education in the United States.” With these words José Ortega y Gasset referred to Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), who was president and chancellor of the University of Chicago between 1929 and 1951. As the Orteguian appellation indicates, Hutchins has earned a prestigious place in the history of American educational thought as the architect of one of the most advanced models of general education ever seen in the New Continent.

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Author Biographies

Àngel Pascual-Martín , Universitat de Barcelona

D. in Philosophy and professor in the Department of Theory and History of Education at the University of Barcelona. The concept of liberal education and the theory and practice of literary education, in the context of higher education, focus his interest from the historical and philosophical point of view. Under this scheme, he has worked on the emergence and development of the “General Education Movement” in the United States, paying special attention to the configuration of the so-called Great Books programs.

Paolo Scotton

professor in the Department of Theory and History of Education at the University of Barcelona. He has devoted many studies to Ortega's life and thought, with particular attention to pedagogical issues. Among them: "The Institute of Humanities between reality and utopia. Un ejemplo del reformismo cultural orteguiano“ (2020); ”Intellectuals, public opinion, and democracy. On Ortega y Gasset's social education“ (2019): Ortega y Gasset's reception through political contingencies. A historiographical study in Spanish intellectual history" (2019) and Origine ed epilogo dell'intellettuale: persona, educazione e politica in Ortega y Gasset (2016).

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Published

2024-05-01 — Updated on 2024-05-01

How to Cite

Pascual-Martín , Àngel, & Scotton, P. (2024). Ortega according to the Chicago group: Chancellor Hutchins and the University Mission. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (48), 161–181. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.46

Issue

No. 48 (2024)

Section

Clásicos de Ortega