What is knowledge? / José Ortega y Gasset ; translated and edited by Jorge García-Gómez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955.

Contributor:

García-Gómez, Jorge.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Standardized Title:

Qué es conocimiento? English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

I Life as Performance (Performative Being) 31

Problems 33

December 19, 1929 35

The 1929-1930 Course 40

First Day 40

Second Day 42

Third Day 46

Sixth Day 55

Seventh Day 65

Eighth Day 71

II Concerning Radical Reality 75

Second Lecture 77

Third Lecture 84

Fourth Lecture 93

III What Is Life? 103

Third Lecture 105

Fifth Lecture 108

Sixth Lecture 116

Seventh Lecture 127

Eighth Lecture 136

IV Glimpses of the History of Philosophy 153

Ninth Lecture 155

Tenth Lecture 156

Eleventh Lecture 167

Appendix Ideas and Beliefs 175

Chapter 1 Believing and Thinking 177

I We Have Ideas, But We Find Ourselves Placed in Our Beliefs. To "Think About Things" and "To Count on Them" 177

II The Befuddlement of Our Times. We Believe in Reason, Not in Its Ideas. Science Almost Poetry 181

III Doubt and Belief. A "Sea of Doubts." The Place of the Ideas 185

Chapter 2 Inner Worlds 189

I The Philosopher's Ridiculousness. A Car's Breakdown and the Breakdown of History. "Ideas and Beliefs," All Over Again 189

II The Ingratitude of Human Beings and Naked Reality 192

III Science as Poetry. A Triangle and Hamlet. The Treasury of Errors 196

IV The Articulation of the Inner Worlds 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252) and index.

ISBN:

0791451712

0791451720

OCLC:

46731202