A hundred years after The Theme of Our Time: Einstein's visit to Spain

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.59

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, Einstein, Relativity, Perspectivism, Physics, mediation, dissemination

Abstract

In these pages we will address the repercussion in José Ortega y Gasset’s thinking and work of the change of scientific paradigm generated in Physics by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In turn, we highlight the key role as a mediator and science communicator Ortega played in Einstein’s visit to Madrid in 1923. To that effect, we analyze the main texts by the philosopher from Madrid, which revolve around the phy- sicist and his thinking, prioritizing El tema de nuestro tiempo, a work whose centenary we remember.

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Author Biography

Gemma Gordo Piñar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid in the Department of Social Anthropology and Spanish Philosophical Thought. PhD in Spanish and Latin American Thought, 19th and 20th centuries, from the same university. Her lines of research are History of Spanish and Ibero-American thought, hermeneutics, and intellectual networks between Spain and Latin America. Her publications include “Spanish Emigration to America (1880-1936)” (2022), “Modernity, Modernism, and Americanism” (2020), and “Miguel de Unamuno and Popular Education” (2020).

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Published

2023-11-01 — Updated on 2023-11-01

How to Cite

Gordo Piñar, G. (2023). A hundred years after The Theme of Our Time: Einstein’s visit to Spain. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (47), 143–164. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.59

Issue

No. 47 (2023)

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Articles