The Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, in Spain, paid a visit to the Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Madrid in the historic building in calle de Fortuny, recently inaugurated by King Felipe VI after expansion works. The minister leafed through the original manuscripts of ‘The rebellion of the masses’, the most famous essay by the Spanish philosopher and sociologist, pausing to read some letters from the correspondence with the writer Miguel de Unamuno.
“Ortega’s thought and analysis of the articulations of society are impressively topical – declared Sangiuliano – Tradition and modernity, the two elements that are referred to in the multimedia contributions of the foundation, are only apparently an oxymoron. The choice to call the his periodical ‘Revista de Occidente’ means a lot. In the editorial of the first issue, Ortega y Gasset warns against abstract and deceptive cosmopolitanism, affirming the need to safeguard national peculiarities. His concerns about the individual diluted in the mass must make us think Today”.