In this book, Ortega y Gasset turns his attention to the world of love and examines life itself through the attraction between its two principal protagonists, the male and the female. Aware that ignorance of love is the cause of many human misfortunes, the author explores and illuminates, among other things, the reality and illusion of love, its history and its transformation across
José Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid in 1883.
He studied at the Universities of Málaga and Madrid, and completed his education in Germany. In 1910 he obtained the chair of Metaphysics at the University of Madrid, where he taught until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
During the period of the “Second Republic,” together with a group of selected professors, José Ortega y Gasset helped organize the School of Philosophy and Philology at an advanced academic level.
With the establishment of Franco’s dictatorship, he left Spain and continued giving lectures in several countries, including the United States, Argentina, France, and Switzerland.
In 1945 he returned to Madrid and founded the Institute of Humanistic Studies, where he taught until his death in 1955, continuously challenging the Franco regime with his ideas.
He published numerous studies, essays, books, and articles, and also founded and edited several journals, including Revista de Occidente, which became important centers of intellectual and philosophical debate.
And also the romantic stirring, the “conquerors” and the “conquered,” the sexual instinct and the search for the perfect, the power of seduction and attraction, the irrational and the rational aspects of its origin. A structured work that analyses and highlights the magic of love.