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3 unusual facts about José Ortega y Gasset


Liza M. Ortiz

She obtained her Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1999, after spending a summer at the International Studies Center at the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Toledo, Spain studying European Community Law and Comparative Spanish Family Law.

Peter Principle

In the 1910s José Ortega y Gasset suggested that: "All public employees should be demoted to their immediately lower level, as they have been promoted until turning incompetent".

Philip Selznick

The first group of theorists is best represented by José Ortega y Gasset and Karl Mannheim.


Francisco Giner de los Ríos

Among the many important people that were at one time or another associated with the "Institución Libre de Enseñanza" and the related "Residencia de Estudiantes" were: José Ortega y Gasset, Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Antonio Machado, Luis Buñuel and Miguel de Unamuno.

La Nación

Some of the most famous writers in the Spanish-speaking world: José Martí, Miguel de Unamuno, Eduardo Mallea, José Ortega y Gasset, Rubén Darío, Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa and Manuel Mujica Láinez have all appeared regularly in its columns.

Residencia de Estudiantes

Writers and artists such as Miguel de Unamuno, Alfonso Reyes, Manuel de Falla, Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Ortega y Gasset, Pedro Salinas, Blas Cabrera, Eugenio d´Ors and Rafael Alberti were frequent visitors and lodged at the Residencia during their stay in Madrid.


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