Revista de Occidente

Revista de Occidente (Magazine of the West in English) is a Spanish language magazine which has been in circulation since 1923 with some interruptions and based in Madrid, Spain. It is known for his founder, José Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher.

Revista de Occidente
CategoriesCultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherJose Ortega y Gasset Foundation
FounderJose Ortega y Gasset
Year founded1923
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
WebsiteRevista de Occidente
ISSN0034-8635
OCLC6407611

History and profile

Revista de Occidente was established by José Ortega y Gasset in 1923.[1] Initially its publisher was a company with the same name which was also founded by Gasset.[2] The publisher of the magazine is the Jose Ortega y Gasset Foundation based in Madrid.[3] It is published on a monthly basis.[1]

Through the magazine José Ortega y Gasset laid the foundations of modernism.[4] Some poems of Federico García Lorca were first published in Revista de Occidente.[2] From 1923 to 1936 the editor of the magazine was José Martínez Ruiz.[5] The magazine ceased publication in 1936 and after a long hiatus was restarted in 1963.[1] It was not published in the period 1977–1980.[1] It was relaunched by Soledad Ortega Spottorno, daughter of José Ortega y Gasset, in 1980.[1] It mostly features articles on humanities and social sciences as well as interviews.[1]

References
  1. "Revista de Occidente" (in Spanish). Dialnet. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. "Ortega y Gasset, Jose". Universo Lorca. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. "Revista de Occidente". Index Copernicus. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. Jason Harding (November 2015). "European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine". Modernism/Modernity. 22 (4): 814. doi:10.1353/mod.2015.0063.
  5. "Revista de Occidente. Spanish periodical". Britannica.
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