Is there any Spanish thinkers worth reading?
I'm also interested in literature but mostly philosophy.
I'm learning Spanish and having a hard time motivating myself, so it would be great to have something i can look forward to reading.
Is there any Spanish thinkers worth reading?
I'm also interested in literature but mostly philosophy.
I'm learning Spanish and having a hard time motivating myself, so it would be great to have something i can look forward to reading.
Ortega y Gasset is good. Also Unamuno.
Any accomplished thinker worth reading, man.
Fernando Savater
Ortega y Gasset works were old-fashioned even a century ago.
Good god, no.
Es un tipo más relamido que un cura.
Hemmingway.
Nicolas Gomez Davilla
Baltasar Gracián.
What do you mean by old fashioned?
Primo de Rivera
Ortega, like Veeky Forums, is obsessed with plebs. Reading La Rebelión de las Masas, every two paragraphs are
>muh plebs
>muh people used to know their place
>muh old times
La España Invertebrada is full of nonsense about the regional spirit that ignores every possible geopolitical explanation
La Deshumanizacion del Arte gives a nice summary of the early 20th century art movements, but is hidden behind all this prejudices on the low classes. His judgements are closed and shortsighted. Never gets something beyond what could be.
Don't get why the guy is still in print.
yeahh dude how absurd have we not PROGRESSED enough for that ????
You are a patrician, sir.
José Ingenieros (born italian, grew up in argentina)
But really, Don Quijote should be all the motivation you need
he was born in Palermo, Sicily. great to read about Ingegneros here desu.
Cervantes is great.
Juan de Avila is interesting, Ignacio de Loyola is useful.
If OP need a modern mainstream novel go for Javier Marias. If you want crazy things read Arrabal.
Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida , 1912
Clarice Lispector, if youre into metaphysical philosophy
>Clarice Lispector
>spanish language
>philosopher
Commit suicide
Borges's essays of course
Augusto Roa Bastos is gud.
wat he do
kek
On Gracián's book Oráculo Manual, via Wikipedia:
>Nietzsche wrote of the Oráculo, "Europe has never produced anything finer or more complicated in matters of moral subtlety," and Schopenhauer, who translated it into German, considered the book "Absolutely unique... a book made for constant use...a companion for life" for "those who wish to prosper in the great world."
ya but whats it about