“An old book of mine...”: José Ortega y Gasset quotes “Invertebrate Spain”

Abstract

This article investigates José Ortega y Gasset’s explicit allusions to his book Invertebrate Spain throughout his published work. Through this analysis, the aim is, first, to show which ideas and theories of Invertebrate Spain persist in the course of Ortega’s philosophical trajectory and how they adapt to different contexts. Secondly, and more generally, this research on the author’s self-references also aims to show how Ortega constructs the connections between his works and how he defines the historiographical narrative of his own thought.