Biography:Andrés Ortiz-Osés

Short description: Spanish philosopher (born 1943)

Andrés Ortiz-Osés.

Andrés Ortiz-Osés (born 1943, Tardienta) is a Spanish philosopher. He studied theology in Comillas and Rome and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in Innsbruck where he earned a Ph.D in hermeneutics.

In 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 been Joseph Campbell, Karl Kerenyi, Mircea Eliade, Erich Neumann, Gilbert Durand, and James Hillman.

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 in Bilbao. 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.

• 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 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