José Ortega y Gasset's visit to Husserl in 1934: Ortega's objections to phenomenology

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https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.93

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Ortega y Gasset, Edmund Husserl, objective of phenomenology, pure conciousness, reflective consciousness, epoché, idealism

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The aim of the essay is to study Ortega’s visit to Husserl in November 1934. There are several letters from Edmund Husserl about that visit, as well as three accounts, one by Miguel Germán, Ortega’s son, who accom- panied his father, for he wanted to continue his medical studies in Freiburg, the other two by Ortega. The objections he presented to Husserl’s phenomenology on that visit constitute a relevant part of the “Prologue for Germans”, which Julián Marías, before being published, used in his History of Philosophy to spread it around the world. In the first section Husserl’s letters about the visit will be presented. In the following I will expose other comments as well as interesting aspects of the “Prologue for Germans”, for example, the absence of the part dedicated to the objection to phenomenology in the first edition of that text in German in 1957. In the third I will focus on the meaning of the objections that appear in the “Prologue” as well in the two accounts Ortega wrote about it.

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Author Biography

Javier San Martín, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Professor emeritus at the UNED. Author of more than 300 publications. His books include Anthropology, Human Science, Critical Science, 1985; The Structure of the Phenomenological Method, 1986; Husserl's Phenomenology as a Utopia of Reason, 1987; and The New Image of Husserl: Lessons from Guanajuato, 2015. Phenomenology and Culture in Ortega, 1998. The Phenomenology of Ortega y Gasset, 2012. Theory of Culture, 1999. Towards Overcoming Cultural Relativism, 2009. Philosophical Anthropology I (2013) and II (2015). He has been vice rector at the UNED and director of the Department of Philosophy and Moral and Political Philosophy. Founder of the Spanish Society of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Research.

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2022-11-01 — Updated on 2022-11-01

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San Martín, J. (2022). José Ortega y Gasset’s visit to Husserl in 1934: Ortega’s objections to phenomenology. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (45), 123–155. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.93

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