José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher.

Ortega y Gasset's writings on technology

Articles

• "Deshumanización del arte", 1925; repr. in Obras completas, Tomo 3, Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1947, pp 353-386. (Spanish) [1]
  • "The Dehumanization of Art", trans. Alexis Brown, in Velázquez, Goya and the Dehumanization of Art, London: Studio Vista, 1972, pp 65-83.
• "Meditación de la técnica", in Ensimismamiento y alteración, Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1939; repr. in Obras completas, Tomo V (1933-1941), Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1947; 6th Ed., 1964, pp 317-375. Series of lectures delivered in 1933. (Spanish)
  • "Man the Technician", trans. Helene Weyl, in Toward a Philosophy of History, New York: W.W. Norton, 1941, pp 87-161; a volume reprinted as History as a System and Other Essays toward a Philosophy of History, 1961. Translated excerpts from the original.
  • "Thoughts on Technology", trans. Edwin Williams, in Philosophy and Technology, eds. Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, Free Press, 1972, pp 290-313. Translated excerpts from the original.
• "Der Mythus des Menschen hinter der Technik" [The Myth of Humanity Outside Technology], in Mensch und Raum, ed. Otto Bartning, Darmstadt: Neue Darmstaedter Verlangsanstalt, 1952, pp 111-117. Lecture delivered at a conference in Darmstadt in 1951. (German)
  • "El mito del hombre allende de la técnica", in Obras completas, Tomo IX (1960-1962), 1962; 2nd Ed., 1965, pp 617-624. A Spanish translation (no Spanish original exists).

Books

• Ensimismamiento y alteración. Meditación de la técnica, Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, 1939. (Spanish)
• Meditación de la técnica, y otros ensayos sobre ciencia y filosofía, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1996. (Spanish)
• Philosophy and Technology, eds. Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey, Free Press, 1972.

On Ortega y Gasset

• Carl Mitcham, "Jose Ortega y Gasset: Meditation on Technics", in Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp 45-49.
• Carl Mitcham, "Excursus on Ortega and Heidegger", in Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp 55-57.
• Jose María Atencia Paez, "Ortega y Gasset, meditador de la técnica", Argumentos de Razón Técnica 6 (2003), pp 61-95. (Spanish)
• María Teresa Russo, "Antropología de la Técnica: Ortega y Gasset y el Pensamiento Italiano", Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 65 (2009), pp 619-628. (in Spanish, with English abstract)
• Pietro Piro, "La Meditación de la técnica di Ortega y Gasset e L’Impossibile ritorno di E. Zolla", Endoxa 28 (2011), Madrid: Uned, pp 179-202. (Italian)

Links

• http://www.ortegaygasset.edu/