Word: gasset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ortega y Gasset...
...reading list was Exhibit A of the hirsute instructor's presentation. Containing authors more properly suited to a philosophy course--Huizinga, Ortega Gasset, and Mishima, among others--the list had enough clout to frighten away more than half of those who showed up for the supposed joyride...
...right that is most frequently trampled on, noted Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, 40 years ago, is the right to continuity. It is that essential link with the past that Bell is intent on reforging. Others are entering similar pleas, but Bell's seems the most brilliantly argued. Moving fluently from Marx to Mallarmé to Andy Warhol, he makes use of modernists' own arguments to reject their conclusions. His adversaries should have no trouble understanding him and perhaps heeding him. Bell's book is the year's most promising start on the long road back...
...Hunter finds it curious that The Revolt of the Masses, by the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, has been so long neglected. If our "Progressivists" were to read it, they would find that they are not progressive at all. They are, in fact, "old hat." America is just now experiencing what Spain saw in 1930 and what Russia saw in 1905! Mrs. John R. Fawcett...
...Relevant to the Essay, Ortega y Gasset also noted, "For plant, animal or star to live is to have no doubts concerning its own being. None of them has to decide what it will be the next instant-thus their life is not drama, but evolution. But man's life is exactly the opposite -it is having to decide every moment what he must do the next moment and therefore having to discover the very design of his being." So it seems we have no choice but to continue to make choices, and how can we make choices without...