“On Thursday I marry: it concluded in me, then, the possibility of a Don Juan who has not been.” Who so ironically, a letter about his private life, is a 26-year-old philosophy professor, who writes the April 6, 1910 Francisco Giner, intellectual authority and founder of the Free Institution of Education, the educational project that wanted to reform education in Spain to bring it closer to modern European standards. Who wrote of is Jose Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 1883-1955) ?? when he had not yet published any books ?? in a letter that follows admiracióny respect between the two, despite the age difference, more than 40 years.
That letter, which ends with “an embrace of respect and a love,” is one of the unpublished papers presented at the international conference The correspondence of Ortega and the European and American cultural networks , which Thursday is celebrated tomorrow at the headquarters in Madrid of the Ortega-Maranon Foundation. Participating universities and Spanish speakers from academia and Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Peru, Poland and Portugal. An appointment that “demonstrates with data, charts, Ortega idea of culture as a catalyst, mediating between Spain, Europe and America,” said the director of the Center of Studies Ortega’s Ortega-Maranon Foundation Javier Zamora Bonilla.
La Ortega y Gasset epistle sent Giner in 1910
What the text says (verbatim).
Dear Fr Francesco, one of these days go to see Mr. D. Pedro Garcia Morales. He is a man who lives in London Huelva studying music. I sent him Ramiro de Maeztu: it is rich and liberal. Want to make some schools Thursday morning
to me. Dies out on me, then, the possibility of a Don Juan who has not been
A hug and a loving respect ..
the conference shows a “more intimate Ortega,” said Zamora, who is related to his disciples, with German historians, with Portuguese thinkers or professing a friendship with Maria de Maeztu, the educator who led the Residence for women, the pioneer center that promoted higher education for women in Spain. Both almost fifty letters is crossed, you unpublished until this time.
Another new document is written Ortega to his friend Fernando Vela, secretary of the Journal publication of the West, with whom he wrote for 40 years some 30 letters that are now coming to light. On October 4, 1942 a Portuguese exile Ortega encourages Vela, who was struggling financially, to join efforts and money to republish Magazine, but in Portugal, and launch a publisher, Random. Ortega confesses: “For six years my life is a permanent derailment” but hoped that “will work together again safely in success.” But “the reality is stubborn,” said Azucena Lopez Cobo, the expert who will address the conference this correspondence. “This company did not materialize, and Revista de Occidente published in Lisbon, nor did until 1963 in Madrid, and Azar just edited a book there,” adds López Cobo.
There are other names Spanish culture with which this intellectual was reported, he raised in gentry illustrated, and which are the subject of three presentations. The letters he exchanged with Azorín are not known, about 70 as a whole. It was a “friendship with bumps and controversy in the press.” However, Ortega “was behind the party” organized in Aranjuez, in November 1913, the Alicante writer to compensate the displeasure of not being elected to the Royal Academy (it would be in 1924).
the same happened with Miguel de Unamuno, “referent”, with whom he had bitter political controversy, but when the Bilbao philosopher was set apart as president of the University of Salamanca in 1914, “Ortega took over those who he defended “. Another member of the Generation of ’98, John Doe, there were clashes by criticism of his books. “He said he wrote badly and that his works had no structure, although he loved his novels.” In this regard 17 other unpublished letters are provided. Zamora argues that literary reviews Ortega today will not be published: “They were very hard, politically incorrect”
From the cultural networks that wove Ortega and referred to in the title of the conference, Zamora emphasizes. several times. “From 1907, writes political articles in the press and is related to Giner, then founded several magazines that are short but give visibility 1914 it is a key year because it presents the League for Political Education and publishes Spanish Meditations on Quixote. his first great book. ” Then came the magazine Spain, the newspaper El Sol (1917), a modern newspaper was his ideologue. He traveled to South America, where it begins to be known for his lectures; in 1923 he creates Occidentey Magazine in 1931 is one of the intellectual founders of the Association to the Service of the Republic. In its quest to modernize Spain, he brought new philosophical and scientific, as the theory of relativity Einstein movements. And, in turn, “introduced psychoanalysis in Latin America.”
The Ortega-Maranon Foundation framed this Congress an ambitious project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy, to edit in the future all epistolarios cross Ortega with friends and personalities. “We have cataloged 2,124 letters written by him and about 8,900 received”. Then there are “the roles of biographical interest”, some 8,320 documents, including correspondence with publishers, paperwork ??
Is today thinker Ortega force or has become outdated? “He had a critical discourse,” says Zamora, “against separatism and corruption, wanted to demolish the old policy, therefore demanded the political parties more democratic and governments a more social policy.”
Source Manuel Morales – El País
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