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

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Standardized Title:

Qué es conocimiento? English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega's most important works, ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay "Ideas y creencias." This is Ortega's attempt to systematically present the foundations of his metaphysics of human life and, on that basis, to provide a radical philosophical account of knowledge. In so doing, he criticizes idealism and overcomes it. Accordingly, this book goes well beyond a treatise on epistemology; in fact, as understood in modern philosophy, this discipline and its questions are shown to be derivative and, in that sense, they are transcended here by Ortega's systematic effort.Written during the time of his maturity, these works are representative of his fruitful and radical period. Both ¿Qué es conocimiento? and "Ideas y creencias" are equally decisive not only for the understanding and radical completion of Ortega's work, but also for their relevance to the work of continental philosophers during the same period and for years to come (e.g., Husserl, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and others).

Contents:

""What Is Knowledge?""; ""Contents""; ""Translator's Introduction by Jorge Garcia-Gomez""; ""Spanish Editor's Note by Paulino Garagorri""; ""PART I: LIFE AS PERFORMANCE (Performative Being)""; ""Problems""; ""December 19, 1929""; ""The 1929-1930 Course""; ""First Day""; ""Second Day""; ""Third Day""; ""Sixth Day""; ""Seventh Day""; ""Eighth Day""; ""PART II: CONCERNING RADICAL REALITY""; ""Second Lecture""; ""Third Lecture""; ""Fourth Lecture""; ""PART III: WHAT IS LIFE?""; ""Third Lecture""; ""Fifth Lecture""; ""Sixth Lecture""; ""Seventh Lecture""; ""Eighth Lecture""

""PART IV: GLIMPSES OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY""""Ninth Lecture""; ""Tenth Lecture""; ""Eleventh Lecture""; ""APPENDIX: IDEAS AND BELIEFS""; ""Chapter One: Believing and Thinking""; ""I. We Have Ideas, But We Find Ourselves Placed in Our Beliefs. To Think About Things and To Count on Them."; ""II. The Befuddlement of Our Times.We Believe in Reason, Not in Its Ideas. Science Almost Poetry.""; ""III. Doubt and Belief. A Sea of Doubts. The Place of the Ideas.""; ""Chapter Two: Inner Worlds""

""I. The Philosophers Ridiculousness. A Car's Breakdown and the Breakdown of History. Ideas and Beliefs, All Over Again.""""II. The Ingratitude of Human Beings and Naked Reality.""; ""III. Science as Poetry.A Triangle and Hamlet. The Treasury of Errors.""; ""IV. The Articulation of the Inner Worlds.""; ""Notes""; ""Translator's Introduction""; ""Spanish Editor's Note""; ""1. Problems""; ""I. The 1929-1930 Course""; ""II. Concerning Radical Reality""; ""III. What Is Life?""; ""IV. Glimpses of the History of Philosophy""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""A. Primary""

""B. Secondary""""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9780791489574

0791489574

9780585443096

0585443092

OCLC:

61367492