Philosophy:Revista de Occidente

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Short description: Monthly cultural magazine in Spain
Revista de Occidente
CategoriesCultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherJose Ortega y Gasset Foundation
FounderJose Ortega y Gasset
Year founded1923
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
WebsiteRevista de Occidente
ISSN0034-8635
OCLC6407611

Revista de Occidente (Spanish: Magazine of the West) is a cultural magazine which has been in circulation since 1923 with some interruptions. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is known for its founder, José Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher.

History and profile

Revista de Occidente was established by José Ortega y Gasset in 1923.[1][2] Initially its publisher was a company with the same name which was also founded by Gasset.[3] The magazine is published by the Jose Ortega y Gasset Foundation based in Madrid on a monthly basis.[1][4]

From 1923 to 1936 the editor of the magazine was José Martínez Ruiz.[5] During this period the major contributors were Rosa Chacel,[6] Revista de Occidente was instrumental in making his modernist approach well-known across the world.[2] The magazine also featured articles on the acceptance of modernism in Spain.[7]

Revista de Occidente provided a platform for the young avant-garde artists and writers belonging to the Generation of '27, including Maruja Mallo.[7] Federico García Lorca first published some of his poems in Revista de Occidente.[3] Victoria Ocampo published the first article in Spanish on Virginia Woolf and her book entitled A Room of One’s Own in the magazine in 1934.[8] Max Aub's novel Geografía was first serialized in the magazine in 1927.[2]

Revista de Occidente did not only published literary work, but also covered articles about many distinct disciplines, including paleontology.[9] It played a significant role in introducing the views of the German philosopher Oswald Spengler in Spain from 1924.[10] In the early 1930s it adopted a liberal political stance.[11]

Revista de Occidente ceased publication in 1936 when the civil war began and also, its contributor Federico García Lorca died.[9] After a long hiatus the magazine was restarted in 1963.[1] It was not published in the period 1977–1980.[1] It was relaunched by Soledad Ortega Spottorno, daughter of José Ortega y Gasset, in 1980.[1] It mostly features articles on humanities and social sciences as well as interviews.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Revista de Occidente" (in es). Dialnet. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?codigo=1203. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jessica Berman (2012). Modernist Commitments. Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism. New York; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. pp. 186,195. ISBN 9780231520393. https://doi.org/10.7312/berm14950. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Ortega y Gasset, Jose". Universo Lorca. https://www.universolorca.com/en/personaje/ortega-y-gasset-jose/. 
  4. "Revista de Occidente". Index Copernicus. https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details?id=7608. 
  5. "Revista de Occidente. Spanish periodical". Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Revista-de-Occidente. 
  6. Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. 1. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press. 1993. p. 814. doi:10.1353/mod.2015.0063. ISBN 978-0-313-28731-2. http://dro.dur.ac.uk/20719/2/20719.pdf. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Estrella de Diego; Jaime Brihuega (Spring 1993). "Art and Politics in Spain, 1928-36". Art Journal 52 (1): 56. doi:10.1080/00043249.1993.10791495. 
  8. Laura Ma Lojo-Rodriguez (2016). "Woolf in Hispanic Countries Buenos Aires and Madrid". in Jessica Berman. A Companion to Virginia Woolf. Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 468. doi:10.1002/9781118457917.ch33. ISBN 9781118457917. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118457917.ch33. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Anna Eva Hiller (Spring 2010). Science and Literary Culture during Spain's Edad de Plata (1923–1936) (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. p. 26.
  10. Carl Antonius Lemke Duque (2021). "‘Fervent spenglerians:’ romanising the historic morphology of cultures in Spain (1922–1938)". History of European Ideas 48 (5): 595–596. doi:10.1080/01916599.2021.1953562. 
  11. María Luz Arroyo Vázquez (2005). "European views of the New Deal: The case of Spain". Journal of Transatlantic Studies 3 (2): 218. doi:10.1080/14794010608656827. 

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