Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset
Subtitle: "The Dawn of Historical Reason"
By: John T. Graham.
Series: "The second volume in a series of comprehensive studies on the thought of Ortega y Gasset."
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo. and London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955.; History -- Philosophy.
Description: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spain's leading philosopher, was also a serious thinker on many of the more complex issues in the study of history. Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset, the second in a three-volume set devoted to Ortega, is the first critical and comprehensive study of this very important side of his intricate body of thought.

Following upon Graham's first volume, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega y Gasset, this one examines Ortega's "instrumentalist" approach to history, which also reflects pragmatist thought (of William James and John Dewey), in a realist use of general models to formulate a kind of theoretical, "schematic history" culminating in an unfinished twenty-year project: "The Dawn of Historical Reason.".

Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset is a full and coherent exposition of Ortega's systematic theory of history that will be of great interest to students and scholars in intellectual history and philosophy of history.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 353-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: History's Central Importance in Ortega's Triple "System"
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xix; title: Introduction: "History" (1925), "Historical Reasoning," Historians
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: A Pragmatist "Phenomenology of History" (1904-1932+)
pagenum: 24; label: 2
title: "Conversation with Statues": Old Philosophy of History
pagenum: 55; label: 3
title: "Second Voyage": "The Dawn of Historical Reason" (1933-1955)
pagenum: 96; label: 4
title: Theory: History as a System: A New Philosophy of History?
pagenum: 130; label: 5
title: Method: "Historiology": "Basic Discipline" for Modeling
pagenum: 166; label: 6
title: Main Models: Man and Crisis: Crisis and Generations
pagenum: 208; label: 7
title: Spengler, Toynbee, and Universal History: Modernization
pagenum: 249; label: 8
title: Influences: Ortega, Historians, Analytical Philosophers
pagenum: 293; title: Appendix: A Key Text: "Hegel and Historiology" (1928)
pagenum: 335; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 353; title: Index
pagenum: 371