José Ortega y Gasset is a name, until recently known to the domestic reader only by reference in critical literature, devoted to the crisis phenomena of Western culture. Meanwhile, the life and work of this greatest Spanish philosopher of the twentieth century has long been covered with world fame. His works received the widest distribution in the West .. This edition introduces for the first time directly to the aesthetic concept of the philosopher. Included works, such, The Dehumanization of Art , "Thoughts of a Novel" , "Etudes of Love" (CM) "Ideas and Beliefs" and others will open to the reader bright, original thinker, whose profound reflections on the fate of art , on recognized classics and avant-garde movements , On “Elitary” and “Mass” Culture , Philosophical reflections on love and free will will appear in a living connection with our own spiritual problems.