Conceptual delimitation" "social work

Impact Ortega y Gasset is perhaps the most important Spanish philosopher, his works have been translated into many foreign languages (mainly his most famous work, The Revolt of the Masses), and have resulted in countless articles and books, interpretive . In Spain before the Civil War Ortega was one of the major figures in the cultural life, both the conference and the newspaper article, and from his professorship at the university and the publishing world and scholar. In this field, for example, simply noting that he founded and directed from 1923 to 1936 "Magazine of the West" and the publisher of the same name, editorial made available to Spanish readers the best in Europe (particularly Germany) was produced in the world of philosophy and social sciences.
His social commitment also led to political commitment: opposition to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, dimission from his professorship at the University after the end of it, founding the "Grouping in the service of the Republic" (1931) and deputy to the Constituent Cortes (1931). In 1936 Civil War begins and Ortega's exile, first in Europe (France and Holland) and later in South America, particularly Argentina, and Portugal. In 1945 he returned to Spain, but not into his chair at the University. In 1948, along with Julian Marias founded the Institute for Humanities " , where they develop courses, some of which are as significant as the one published in 1957 The man and the people. He died in Madrid on October 18, 1955.
After the Civil War, though marginalized by the academic community, its influence also extends the circle of Spanish Ortega (Xirau, Gaos, Marias, Ferrater Mora, Lain EntralgoAranguren ...) to Latin American thought. Given the diversity of interests of Ortega and his fertility of ideas, his influence was also present in other areas beyond the strictly philosophical in the history of journalism remains one of the great masters of the article, made known to the principal authors of the Generation of '27, worked on the novel, art, science and technology, European unity ...