Ortega y Gasset

[ awr-tey-guh ee gah-set; Spanish awr-te-gah ee gahs-set ]

noun

1. Jo·sé [haw-, se], 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.

Ortega y Gasset

/ ɔrˈteɣa i ɡaˈsɛt /

noun

1. Ortega y GassetJosé18831955MSpanishWRITING: essayistPHILOSOPHY: philosopher José (xoˈse). 1883–1955, Spanish essayist and philosopher. His best-known work is The Revolt of the Masses (1930)

Example Sentences

In fact, his father, a follower of the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, had opposed Franco during the Spanish Civil War and was nearly executed afterward.

From New York Times

This year the project won the Ortega y Gasset prize, one of the highest awards in Spanish-language journalism.

From Los Angeles Times

“Rancor,” wrote José Ortega y Gasset, “is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.”

From Washington Post

Instead of elevating, their education produces only expensively schooled versions of what José Ortega y Gasset called the “mass man.”

From Washington Post

Entering Ben Pederson’s solo exhibition, “Some Stuff You Forgot About,” at Ortega y Gasset Projects, feels like stepping into a dream world: You see familiar forms, but they don’t adhere to a logic you understand.

From New York Times