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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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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Jordi Cat 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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