by José Ortega y Gasset · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423918133
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«La deshumanización del arte y otros ensayos de estética» is the aesthetics essay by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (Espasa, paperback, 222 pages).
It brings together Ortega y Gasset's essay on the avant-garde art of the early twentieth century. The philosopher analyzes modern art's tendency to move away from the human, and points to irony, abstraction and intellectual play as features of the avant-garde. It includes other writings, such as «Una exposición Zuloaga», «La Gioconda» and «Diálogo sobre el arte nuevo».
This volume belongs to the Austral Collection and opens with a prologue by Valeriano Bozal. The work was originally published in 1925.
Suitable for students of the philosophy of art and for readers interested in the aesthetic thought of the Spanish avant-garde of the 1920s.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
