Más allá de los manifiestos artísticos: "La deshumanización del arte" de Ortega y Gasset como meditación sobre el arte

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to think the essence of art in the philosophy of Ortega from his book La deshumanizacion del arte . Art is for Ortega above all, as cultural form, an interpretation of life’s text. But La deshumanizacion 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 deshumanizacion 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