An Overview of Spanish Philosophy in the “Novecientos”

Abstract

The blemish or the “vital disorientation” of the Iberian Peninsula, as Ortega y Gasset underlines in his wide analyses about the Spanish situation, demonstrates the “uncertainty and indecision”. It also delays the adequacy of the Spanish society to the project of a change. This situation generates the sensation of pessimism that the groups regeneracionistas tried to solve with a program of social renovation. In effect, being european means the discovery of a new Spain there with an aim: the observation of the Spanish people, the intrahistoria, that is to say, persons who get up to be going to work, to the field: the real history. This people is also prominent figures in Unamuno’s work, Baroja’s work and Azorín’s work. The writers observe the Spanish people to decipher its psychology, to gather the character, the genius, the soul of the nation. In this scene it is opened in the “brief century”. Armando Savignano thinks about the Spanish thought in his work “View of the Spanish philosophy of the 20th century”. It gets in Spain of the Philosophy and cultural debate.