Andrés Ortiz-Osés (1943 – 18 June 2021) was a Spanish

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. He was the founder of symbolic hermeneutics, a philosophical trend that gave a symbolic twist to north European

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. He was born in Tardienta, studied

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in Comillas and

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, and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in

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where he earned a Ph.D. in

. At Innsbruck he attended the lessons of Gadamer and Coreth. He was a member of the Eranos group, inspired by C.G. Jung. Other members of Eranos have included Joseph Campbell,

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, Erich Neumann, Gilbert Durand, and

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. He was largely responsible for introducing

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theories into the Spanish and Latin American intellectual scene. He became a professor of hermeneutics at the University of Deusto in

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. He wrote more than thirty books. He died in

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on 18 June 2021 at the age of 78.Fallece a los 78 años el filósofo Andrés Ortiz-Osés
Cfr. Andrés Ortiz-Osés, ''The Sense of the World'' (David Sumares, trans.). The Davies Group, Colorado, 2008

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His whole body of work can be divided into four categories: 1. Hermeneutical treatises. *''Antropología Hermenéutica'', Editorial Ricardo Aguilera, 1973. *''Mundo, hombre y lenguaje crítico'', Sígueme. 1976. *''Comunicación y experiencia interhumana'', Descleé. 1977. *''La nueva Filosofía hermenéutica'', Anthropos, 1986. 2. Symbolic and

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. *''El matriarcalismo vasco'', Universidad de Deusto, 1980. *''El inconsciente colectivo vasco'', Txertoa, 1982. *''Antropología simbólica vasca'', Anthropos, 1985. *''La identidad cultural aragonesa'', Centro de Estudios Bajoaragoneses, 1992. *''La Diosa Madre'', Trotta. 1996. *''Las claves simbólicas de nuestra cultura'', Anthropos, 1992. *''Cuestiones fronterizas'', Anthropos, 1999. 3.

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of the sense of life. *''Metafísica del sentido'', Universidad de Deusto, 1989. *''Cuestiones fronterizas'', Anthropos, 1999. *''La razón afectiva'', 2000. *''Amor y Sentido'', 2003. 4.

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. *''Co-Razón'', MRA, 1996. *''Experiencia / Existencia'', March Editor, 2006. *''Filosofía de la experiencia'', Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 2006.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ortiz-Oses 1943 births 2021 deaths Hermeneutists 21st-century Spanish philosophers 20th-century Spanish philosophers Aphorists Comillas Pontifical University alumni Pontifical Gregorian University alumni University of Innsbruck alumni Academic staff of the University of Deusto People from Monegros