Ortega y las Meditaciones del Quijote

This work celebrates both Meditations on Quixote (1914) by Jose Ortega y Gasset and the great work of Cervantes, the second part of Quixote, whose Centenary was celebrated in 1915. Some of the most recent works by excellent Orteguian writers propose old and new theories to understand and interpret the first book of the philosopher of El Escorial. Some of them considered Ortega’s first book to provide the foundations for all his later philosophy. Another writer focused on the influence and rivalry of Ortega with Husserl and Heidegger philosophies. Here, we attempt to balance the controversy, pointing out that some traces of the principal mature works of Ortega are included in Meditations, but not enough to conclude that the young philosopher of 1914 had completed his philosophic itinerary. We find the same Ortega, who continually repeated that philosophy is an evolution and changing of points of view, enabling the thinker to keep abreast of the times