| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

John T. Graham. Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: "The Dawn of Historical Reason." Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 1997. Pp. xix, 384. $44.95.

This is the second of three volumes devoted to José Ortega y Gasset's thought. In the first, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Life in Ortega y Gasset (1994), John T. Graham considered Ortega's philosophy of life (his vitalism). A projected third volume will deal with his philosophy of language (a "new philology"). In this volume, Graham presents Ortega's philosophy and theory of history. 1

Graham warns us at the outset that he is "an intellectual historian of the 'old' persuasion" (p. xvii) and does not write intellectual history in the "new style" represented, for example, by Dominick LaCapra and Hayden White (p. xvii and p. x, n. 1). And indeed, what we have is a traditional, competent, and detailed reconstruction of Ortega's thought in the history of ideas mode. Graham patiently leads us through the labyrinth of Ortega's basic concepts and traces the origins, developments, and variations of his ideas. But since Graham's purpose is less to "explain" Ortega's thought than to "comprehend" it (p. xviii), we remain for the most part within Ortega's texts and seldom venture out into the surrounding world in which Ortega lived, worked, and wrote. . . .

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