José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset José Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid on 9 May 1883 and died in the same city on 18 October 1955. He studied in Madrid and in Germany, above all at Marburg, where he came into contact with the Neo-Kantianism of Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. In 1910 he took the chair of Metaphysics at the Universidad Central in Madrid. He was the leading figure of the so-called Generation of 1914, founded the Revista de Occidente (1923), and took part in Republican public life. With the outbreak of the Civil War he left Spain in 1936 and lived in exile (France, Argentina, Portugal) until his return in the second half of the 1940s; in 1948 he founded the Instituto de Humanidades in Madrid together with Julián Marías. ...