On Life and Language. Ortega and Wittgenstein

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.688

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, Wittgenstein, limit, context, belief, science

Abstract

Despite both thinkers belonging to the tragic generation of 1914, José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1888-1951) never actually met in their lives or in their texts (neither those they wrote nor those they read). Coming from very separate philosophical traditions –the logical atomism of Wittgenstein and the neo-Kantianism and phenomenology of Ortega– the works of these two philosophers nevertheless show latent conceptual affinities. We shall limit ourselves to suggesting three possible conceptual keys: limit, context and belief.

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Author Biography

Juan Navarro de San Pío, Universidad de Valencia

He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Valencia and has studied in Mainz (Germany) and Connecticut (United States). From 1999 to 2003, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Alicante, and he is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on Ortega y Gasset. Notable among his published articles are “Azorín’s ‘Little Philosophy’ in the Light of Ortega’s Meditations” (2002), “Die Notwendigkeit modern zu sein” (1999), and “Hermeneutics and the Genealogy of the Limit” (1999).

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Published

2004-05-01 — Updated on 2004-05-01

How to Cite

Navarro de San Pío, J. (2004). On Life and Language. Ortega and Wittgenstein. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (8/9), 219–232. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.688

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No. 8/9 (2004)

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Articles