Ortega y Gasset

American  

[awr-tey-guh ee gah-set, awr-te-gah ee gahs-set] / ɔrˈteɪ gə i gɑˈsɛt, ɔrˈtɛ gɑ i gɑsˈsɛt /

noun

1. José 1883–1955, Spanish philosopher, journalist, and critic.

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Ortega y Gasset British  

/ ɔrˈteɣa i ɡaˈsɛt /

noun

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

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Ortega y Gasset

Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset called modern art, way back in 1925, “antipopular.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

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 ● Sep. 12, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022

He was referring to José Ortega y Gasset, the liberal Spanish philosopher, who lived during the darkest years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2016

To-day Ortega y Gasset is our Turgeniev—not without mixture.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)