Andrés Ortiz-Osés is a Spanish philosopher. He studied theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

 in Comillas

Comillas

Comillas is a small township and municipality in the northern reaches of Spain, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. The Marquisate of Comillas, a fiefdom of Spanish nobility, holds ceremonial office in the seat of power at a small castle which overlooks the town.-Marquis of Comillas:The first...

 and Rome

Rome

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 and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

 where he earned a Ph.D in hermeneutics.

In Innsbruck he attended the lessons of Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method .-Life:...

 and Coreth. He was a member of the Eranos

Eranos

Eranos is an intellectual discussion group dedicated to the study of psychology, religion, philosophy and spirituality which has met annually in Switzerland since 1933....

 group, inspired by C.G. Jung. Other members of Eranos have been Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...

, Karl Kerenyi

Karl Kerényi

Károly Kerényi was a Hungarian scholar in classical philology, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology.- Hungary 1897–1943 :...

, Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...

, Erich Neumann

Erich Neumann

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, Gilbert Durand

Gilbert Durand

Gilbert Durand is a French academic known for his work on the imagination and mythology.He was teacher of philosophy from 1947 to 1956, then professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Grenoble II. Gilbert Durand was the co-founder - with Léon Cellier and Paul Deschamps in 1966 - and the director...

, and James Hillman

James Hillman

James Hillman was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut on October 27,...

.

He has been the main introductor of Jungian theories in the Spanish and Latin American intellectual scene. Currently he is a professor of hermeneutics at the University of Deusto

University of Deusto

The University of Deusto is a Spanish Jesuit University, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, Spain.-History:The University of Deusto first opened in 1886, having been founded because of the Basque Country's desire to have its own university and the Society of Jesus's wish to move its School...

 in Bilbao

Bilbao

Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

. He is the author of more than thirty books and is the founder of the symbolic hermeneutics, a philosophical trend that gave a symbolic twist to north European hermeneutics.

Cfr. Andrés Ortiz-Osés, The Sense of the World (David Sumares, trans.). The Davies Group, Colorado, 2008

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Select bibliography

His whole body of work can be divided into four categories:

1. Hermeneutical treatises.

• Antropología Hermenéutica, Editorial Ricardo Aguilera, 1973.ISBN 84-7005-123-7
• Mundo, hombre y lenguaje crítico, Sígueme. 1976.
• Comunicación y experiencia interhumana, Descleé. 1977. ISBN 84-330-0383-6
• La nueva Filosofía hermenéutica, Anthropos, 1986. ISBN 84-7658-017-7

2. Symbolic and Mythological studies, especially interpretations of the Basque mythology

Basque mythology

The mythology of the ancient Basques largely did not survive the, albeit late, arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD...

.

• El matriarcalismo vasco, Universidad de Deusto, 1980. ISBN 84-7485-011-8
• El inconsciente colectivo vasco, Txertoa, 1982. ISBN 84-7148-107-3
• Antropología simbólica vasca, Anthropos, 1985. ISBN 84-85887-84-0
• La identidad cultural aragonesa, Centro de Estudios Bajoaragoneses, 1992.ISBN 84-86982-33-2
• La Diosa Madre, Trotta. 1996.ISBN 84-8164-099-9
• Las claves simbólicas de nuestra cultura, Anthropos, 1992. ISBN 84-7658-307-9
• Cuestiones fronterizas, Anthropos, 1999.ISBN 84-7658-560-8

3. Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

 of the sense of life.

• Metafísica del sentido, Universidad de Deusto, 1989. ISBN 84-7485-108-4
• Cuestiones fronterizas, Anthropos, 1999. ISBN 84-7658-560-8
• La razón afectiva, 2000. ISBN 84-8260-073-7
• Amor y Sentido, 2003. ISBN 84-7658-652-3

4. Aphorisms.

• Co-Razón, MRA, 1996. ISBN 84-88865-82-1
• Experiencia / Existencia, March Editor, 2006. ISBN 84-95608-77-4
• Filosofía de la experiencia, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 2006. ISBN 84-8127-176-4

External links

• Personal website (in Spanish)