| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to think the essence of art in the philosophy of Ortega from his book <em>La deshumanización del arte</em>. Art is for Ortega above all, as cultural form, an interpretation of life’s text. But <em>La deshumanización del arte</em> isn’t a manifesto of artistic avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century, but a meditation on the essence of art. Meditation is the form of thinking of Ortega’s philosophy of vital reason. In <em>La deshumanización del arte</em>, Ortega conceives art as floating island surrounded by reality. This means that art is essentially artistic art, that is, derealization of reality and realization of irrealit
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