Andrés Ortiz-Osés

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Andrés Ortiz-Osés.

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

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

He was born in Tardienta, studied theology in Comillas and Rome, and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in Innsbruck where he earned a Ph.D. in hermeneutics.

At Innsbruck he attended the lessons of

.

He was largely responsible for introducing

Jungian theories into the Spanish and Latin American intellectual scene. He became a professor of hermeneutics at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. He wrote more than thirty books. He died in Zaragoza on 18 June 2021 at the age of 78.[1]

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

Mythological studies, especially interpretations of the Basque mythology
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3. Metaphysics of the sense of life.

4.

Aphorisms
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