Beyond the Artistics Manifestos. ‘La deshumanización del arte’ by Ortega y Gasset as meditation on art

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to think the essence of art in the philosophy of Ortega from his book La deshumanización del arte. Art is for Ortega above all, as cultural form, an interpretation of life’s text. But La deshumanización del arte isn’t a manifesto of artistic avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century, but a meditation on the essence of art. Meditation is the form of thinking of Ortega’s philosophy of vital reason. In La deshumanización del arte, Ortega conceives art as floating island surrounded by reality. This means that art is essentially artistic art, that is, derealization of reality and realization of irrealit

Keywords

• ortega y gasset, arte, vida, cultura, manifiesto, meditación, desrealización