The Evolution of Ortega y Gasset as Literary Critic

Examines the evolution of Ortega y Gasset's literary criticism from 1902 through 1959 against the parallel background of his philosophical and methodological development. The author concentrates on three distinct phases in Ortega's evolution: the social phase of his earlier writings; the phenomenological phase beginning around 1911; and the final, ontological phase which begins after his reading of Heidegger in 1927.