What Is Knowledge?

by Ortega Y Gasset, Jose; Garcia-Gomez, Jorge; Garcia-Gomez, Jorge

• ISBN13: 9780791451717
• ISBN10: 0791451712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish essayist and philosopher, remains one of the most famous Spanish philosophers of the last century Jorge Garcia-Gomez is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	1	(28)
Jorge Garcia-Gomez
Spanish Editor's Note	29	(2)
Paulino Garagorri
Life as Performance (Performative Being)	31	(44)
Problems	33	(7)
December 19, 1929	35	(5)
The 1929-1930 Course	40	(35)
First Day	40	(2)
Second Day	42	(4)
Third Day	46	(9)
Sixth Day	55	(10)
Seventh Day	65	(6)
Eighth Day	71	(4)
Concerning Radical Reality	75	(28)
Second Lecture	77	(7)
Third Lecture	84	(9)
Fourth Lecture	93	(10)
What Is Life	103	(50)
Third Lecture	105	(3)
Fifth Lecture	108	(8)
Sixth Lecture	116	(11)
Seventh Lecture	127	(9)
Eighth Lecture	136	(17)
Glimpses of the History of Philosophy	153	(22)
Ninth Lecture	155	(1)
Tenth Lecture	156	(11)
Eleventh Lecture	167	(8)
Appendix: Ideas and Beliefs	175	(30)
Chapter One: Believing and Thinking	177	(12)
I We Have Ideas, But We Find Ourselves Placed in Our Beliefs. To ``Think About Things'' and ``To Count on Them.''	177	(4)
II The Befuddlement of Our Times. We Believe in Reason, Not in Its Ideas. Science Almost Poetry	181	(4)
III Doubt and Belief. A ``Sea of Doubts.'' The Place of the Ideas	185	(4)
Chapter Two: Inner Worlds	189	(16)
I The Philosopher's Ridiculousness. A Car's Breakdown and the Breakdown of History. ``Ideas and Beliefs,'' All Over Again	189	(3)
II The Ingratitude of Human Beings and Naked Reality	192	(4)
III Science as Poetry. A Triangle and Hamlet. The Treasury of Errors	196	(3)
IV The Articulation of the Inner Worlds	199	(6)
Notes	205	(40)
Bibliography	245	(8)
Index	253