![]() ![]() The respective na tional ideologies and interests prompting them were complexes of ideas and suggestions that Ortega as well as Ors intended as expressions social reform. Catalan and Spanish readings of relativity, represented respectively by Ors and Ortega, were indirectly cultural and political. I will discuss, in particular, how Ortega was engaged in a related intellectual and political pro-ject, albeit explicitly concerned with the deteriorating unity of Spain, and how Ortega as well as Ors engaged the figure of Einstein and the theory of relativity to express and support a philosophical view in epistemology and politics. Besides establish-ing the intellectual and personal connections between Ors and Ortega, I will present their own respective projects and circumstances. Then I connect and contrast Ors' philosophical, European and Catalan reading and use of Einstein's theory with a no less territorial and European but Spanish reading, between 19, by the Madrid-born Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955). In this paper I situate this science-centered internationalism within Ors' program for social reform known as Catalan Noucentisme and illustrate it with his evolving discussion of Einstein's the ory of Relativity, first in his doctoral dissertation of 1913 and in subsequent discussions. To Llull's univer sal science, according to Pujols, Ors opposed a no less Catalan science-based synthesis that includes most prominently modern Northern European and Greek philosophical doctrines. In Concepte General de la Ciencia Catalana (1918) the Catalan philosopher Francesc Pujols declared Ramon Llull the founder of Catalan science and Eugeni d'Ors (1881-1954) his equal in genius but also his diametrical opposite (Pujols, 1918, Preface and chapters LX and LXII). ![]() Palabras clave: Eugeni d'Ors José Ortega y Gasset Albert Einstein Joan Crexells Esteve Terradas teoría de la relatividad nacionalismo español nacionalismo catalán imperialismo Catalanismo eu-ropeísmo paradojas de Zenón perspectivismo unidad y pluralidad En este artículo analizo los casos inseparables de Ors en relación con el nacionalismo catalán y al proyecto que denominó Noucentisme y de Ortega en relación con el nacionalismo español y a su filosofía política articulada en La España Invertebrada. La teoría de Einstein simbolizó la conexión salvadora entre lo clásico y lo moderno, Europa y el Mediterráneo, y ciencia y filosofía. Además, frecuentes referencias a Einstein distinguen sus respectivas ideas filosóficas, sus preocupaciones territoriales y sus circunstancias personales en relación a Cataluña, España y Europa. Tras la Guerra Civil el filósofo catalán Eugeni d'Ors y el filósofo español José Ortega y Gasset ofrecieron una lectura de la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein in la cual conectaron discusiones de unidad y pluralidad con sus respectivas filosofías y proyectos nacionalistas de análisis y reforma política y cultural sintetizantes. Keywords: Eugeni d'Ors José Ortega y Gasset Albert Einstein Joan Crexells Esteve Terradas Noucentisme relativity theory Spanish na-tionalism imperialism Catalan nationalism Catalanism European-ism Zeno's paradoxes perspectivalism unity and plurality In this pa per I examine the inseparable case of Ors in relation to Catalan nation-alism and the project he called Noucentisme and of Ortega in relation to Spanish nationalism and his political philosophy in España Invertebrada. Einstein's theory sym-bolized the saving connection between the classical and the modern, Europe and the Mediterranean, and science and philosophy. In particular, frequent references to Einstein tracked their respective philosophical views, territorial concerns and personal circumstances regarding the relations between Catalonia, Spain and Europe. In the aftermath of the Spanish War, the Catalan philosopher Eugeni d'Ors and the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset offered a read-ing of Einstein's theory of relativity in which discussions of unity and plurality connected their respective synthetic philosophies and nation-alist projects of political and cultural analysis and reform. ![]()
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