What is Knowledge?

<p>Appearing in English for the first time this book comprises two of Ortega's most important works ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay Ideas y creencias. This is Ortega's attempt to systematically present the foundations of his metaphysics of human life and on that basis to provide a radical philosophical account of knowledge. In so doing he criticizes idealism and overcomes it. Accordingly this book goes well beyond a treatise on epistemology; in fact as understood in modern philosophy this discipline and its questions are shown to be derivative and in that sense they are transcended here by Ortega's systematic effort.</p><p>Written during the time of his maturity these works are representative of his fruitful and radical period. Both ¿Qué es conocimiento? and Ideas y creencias are equally decisive not only for the understanding and radical completion of Ortega's work but also for their relevance to the work of continental philosophers during the same period and for years to come (e.g. Husserl Jaspers Heidegger Sartre and others).</p>