Revista de Occidente

   Founded in 1923 by José Ortega y Gasset, the Revista de Occidente celebrated its seventieth anniversary by publishing a special edition. Under the title La reception de la nuevo (The Reception of the New) it took the form of an anthology of texts from its first period of existence from 1923 to 1936, demonstrating the interest of contributors and readers in all things new in the intellectual world outside Spain: in literary styles, forms of music, and philosophies. Having ceased publication at the beginning of the Civil War, it was revived in 1963 by the founder's son, José Ortega Spottorno until 1975, and then relaunched again in 1980 by his daughter, Soledad Ortega when the Ortega y Gasset Foundation was created. Published eleven times a year by the Foundation, it is a leading intellectual and literary review covering the social sciences and the humanities, with a circulation of some 20,000.

   See also: cultural institutions and movements; Francoist culture; intellectual life

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