Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this letter, probably addressed to Homero M. Guglielmini (one of the editors of the magazine Inicial. Revista de la nueva generación) [Initial. Journal of the new generation], Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset expresses his mistrust [...]

In this article, the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, expresses his concern about the “belligerent” attitude he encounters in today’s Spanish and Argentine young adults. With respect to Argentina, this observation is based on his [...]

In this essay, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset revisits the ideas he set forth in the articles published by the journal Nosotros [Us] (Buenos Aires) under the title “Las Revistas: El tema de nuestro tiempo” [The Magazines: The Topic of [...]

This text is a postscript to the article, “El deber de la nueva generación argentina” [The Duty of the New Argentine Generation], published in the La Nación [The Nation] newspaper and written by José Ortega y Gasset. In this article the [...]

In this essay the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset proposes the existence of “épocas acumulativas” [cumulative periods] and “épocas eliminatorias y polémicas” [eliminatory and controversial periods] in the course of historical [...]

In this second part of the article, Jose Ortega y Gasset exemplifies his thesis about the course of history, marked by the change in the “vital sensibility” of each generation. This, stemming from the explanation of the distances between the [...]

The magazine Inicial: Revista de la nueva generación [Initial: Magazine of the New Generation], published this anonymous article under the title “Un filósofo de la nueva generación” [A Philosopher of the New Generation] (v. 1, no. 3, December [...]