Meditations On Quixote

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In Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of "essays in intellectual love," Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given fact (a person, a book, a landscape, an error, a sorrow) by the shortest route to its fullest significance. He then considers how literature, specifically Cervantes, contributes to realizing this aim.
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Overview

In Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of "essays in intellectual love," Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given fact (a person, a book, a landscape, an error, a sorrow) by the shortest route to its fullest significance. He then considers how literature, specifically Cervantes, contributes to realizing this aim.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393001259
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 11/1/1963
  • Pages: 196
  • Sales rank: 519,268
  • Product dimensions: 0.45 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 8.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Translator's Note 7
Prologue for American Readers 9
Introduction 11
To the Reader 31
Preliminary Meditation 57
1 The Forest 59
2 Depth and Surface 61
3 Streams and Orioles 64
4 Worlds Beyond 67
5 The Restoration and Erudition 70
6 Mediterranean Culture 74
7 What a Captain Said to Goethe 79
8 The Panther, or on Sensism 81
9 Things and Their Meaning 87
10 The Concept 91
11 Culture - Security 94
12 Light as an Imperative 97
13 Integration 100
14 Parable 104
15 Criticism as Patriotism 105
First Meditation: A Short Treatise on the Novel 111
1 Literary Genres 112
2 Exemplary Novels 114
3 The Epic 118
4 Poetry of the Past 120
5 The Bard 124
6 Helen and Madame Bovary 126
7 The Myth, Leaven of History 128
8 Books of Chivalry 130
9 Master Pedro's Puppet Show 133
10 Poetry and Reality 135
11 Reality, Leaven of the Myth 138
12 The Windmills 141
13 Realistic Poetry 143
14 Mime 146
15 The Hero 148
16 Intervention of Lyricism 150
17 Tragedy 152
18 Comedy 156
19 Tragicomedy 160
20 Flaubert, Cervantes, Darwin 162
Notes 166
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