Reflections on Ortega’s Justification of Autonomous Art: Eutrapelia and Evasion

Abstract

Ortega introduces the art in his metaphysical thought about life as a drama. He emphasizes its condition of autonomous when he writes about art new and the novel. For him (not in a strict sense) the autonomy is a new territory different from the reality where the reader or the spectator moves himself out from his own existence. This kind of escape is: the subject becomes lost in thought (“ensimismarse”) because the art. It (as a justification) refers to the same principles of the forgotten doctrine of eutrapely that considers the entertainment as distension, although it has a new metaphysic presentation.