Above all a philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset enunciated the seminal idea of his thought in this sentence: “I am myself and my circumstance, and if I don’t save it, I don’t save myself”. In this podcast, Juan Pablo Fusi, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at Madrid’s Universidad Complutense, talks about this outstanding figure in Spanish culture that tried to make sense of the most important challenges of 20th century’s humanity.

Presented by Maria Jenell Nicolas

Books and publications by José Ortega y Gasset 

(1914) | Meditations on Quixote, New York, Norton, 1961.

(1921) | Invertebrate Spain, London, Allen and Unwin, 1937.

(1930) | The Revolt of the Masses, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1932.

(1932) | “In Search of Goethe from Within”, in José Ortega y Gasset, The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1968.

(1957) | Man and People, London, Allen & Unwin, 1957.

(1958) | The Idea of Principle in Leibnitz and the Evolution of Deductive Theory, New York, Norton, 1971.

(1960) | An Interpretation of Universal History, New York: Norton, 1973.

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