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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  José Ortega y Gasset worked through the first half of the 20th century as Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. He drew from William James's pragmatist metaphysics and Edmund Husserl's realist phenomenology, forging a method that served twin ends: a proto-existentialism that came before Martin Heidegger's, and a realist historicism compared to Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce. The result was what scholars have called a "philosophy of life" — a long-hidden beginning that only later revealed its full architecture. He died in 1955, leaving a body of essays and philosophy that captured the intellectual currents of a convulsive era.