The effect of Heidegger’s philosophy on Ortega y Gasset’s reading of Kant

Abstract

José Ortega y Gasset interprets Kant’s philosophy in two independent texts, in Reflexiones del centenario and in Anejo a mi folleto Kant. Ortega analyses Kant’s transcendental philosophy through the lens of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy. Ortega’s Anejo a mi folleto Kant approaches the program of Kantian pure critique of reason as the “critique of reason vitalis.” The paper seeks to compare Ortega’s conclusions to Heidegger’s tenets in Kant and the problem of metaphysics.