Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic

In the aftermath of the Spanish War, the Catalan philosopher Eugeni d'Ors and the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset offered a reading of Einstein’s theory of relativity in which discussions of unity and plurality connected their respective synthetic philosophies and nationalist projects...

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Main Author: Jordi Cat
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Language:English
Published: Universidad de Valparaíso 2018-12-01
Series:Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
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Online Access:https://revistas.uv.cl/index.php/RHV/article/view/1318/1362
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spelling doaj-8e1c375f3b5743ddab756fc6342fdb092020-11-25T00:40:31ZengUniversidad de ValparaísoRevista de Humanidades de Valparaíso0719-42340719-42422018-12-01121967https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv.2018.12.1318Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish RepublicJordi Cat0Department of History Jans Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Indiana UniversityIn the aftermath of the Spanish War, the Catalan philosopher Eugeni d'Ors and the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset offered a reading of Einstein’s theory of relativity in which discussions of unity and plurality connected their respective synthetic philosophies and nationalist projects of political and cultural analysis and reform. Besides their philosophical views, references to Einstein tracked their territorial concerns and personal circumstances in the relations between Catalonia, Spain and Europe. Einstein’s theory symbolized the saving connection between the classical and the modern, Europe and the Mediterranean, and science and philosophy. In this paper I focus on the case of Ors in relation to Catalan nationalism and the project he called Noucentismeand the case of Ortega in relation to Spanish nationalism and his political philosophy in España Invertebrada.https://revistas.uv.cl/index.php/RHV/article/view/1318/1362Eugeni d’OrsJosé Ortega y GassetAlbert EinsteinJoan CrexellsEsteve TerradasNoucentismerelativity theorySpanish nationalismimperialismCatalan nationalismCatalanismEuropeanismZeno’s paradoxesperspectivalismunity and plurality
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Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
Eugeni d’Ors
José Ortega y Gasset
Albert Einstein
Joan Crexells
Esteve Terradas
Noucentisme
relativity theory
Spanish nationalism
imperialism
Catalan nationalism
Catalanism
Europeanism
Zeno’s paradoxes
perspectivalism
unity and plurality
author_facet Jordi Cat
author_sort Jordi Cat
title Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
title_short Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
title_full Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
title_fullStr Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
title_full_unstemmed Territorial Philosophies of Relativity and the Unity of Spain: Ors and Ortega on Einstein and Relativity at the Service of Catalan Noucentisme and the Spanish Republic
title_sort territorial philosophies of relativity and the unity of spain: ors and ortega on einstein and relativity at the service of catalan noucentisme and the spanish republic
publisher Universidad de Valparaíso
series Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
issn 0719-4234
0719-4242
publishDate 2018-12-01
description In the aftermath of the Spanish War, the Catalan philosopher Eugeni d'Ors and the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset offered a reading of Einstein’s theory of relativity in which discussions of unity and plurality connected their respective synthetic philosophies and nationalist projects of political and cultural analysis and reform. Besides their philosophical views, references to Einstein tracked their territorial concerns and personal circumstances in the relations between Catalonia, Spain and Europe. Einstein’s theory symbolized the saving connection between the classical and the modern, Europe and the Mediterranean, and science and philosophy. In this paper I focus on the case of Ors in relation to Catalan nationalism and the project he called Noucentismeand the case of Ortega in relation to Spanish nationalism and his political philosophy in España Invertebrada.
topic Eugeni d’Ors
José Ortega y Gasset
Albert Einstein
Joan Crexells
Esteve Terradas
Noucentisme
relativity theory
Spanish nationalism
imperialism
Catalan nationalism
Catalanism
Europeanism
Zeno’s paradoxes
perspectivalism
unity and plurality
url https://revistas.uv.cl/index.php/RHV/article/view/1318/1362
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