José Ortega y Gasset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Ortega y Gasset

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

Date of Birth: 09-May-1883

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1955

Profession: writer, politician, mathematician, pedagogue, university teacher, sociologist, literary critic, philosopher, opinion journalist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

José Ortega y Gasset (Spanish: [xo'se o?'te?a i ?a'set]; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist.
He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship.
His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."