As Orteguians as Marxists: a re-reading of the debate between Manuel Sacristán and Gustavo Bueno

Abstract

In order to understand the debate between two thinkers considered to be Marxist, the current article propounds to situate them within a philosophical tradition represented by José Ortega y Gasset. This tradition met in an original way international and philosophical debates, and only drawing from that tradition it is possible to understand Manuel Sacristán’s proposal to put an end to the faculties of philosophy in 1968; to this suggestion Gustavo Bueno responded. The reconstruction of this debate allows to salvage a reflection on the philosophy of Ortega which enables original responses to the problem of the autonomy of philosophy and its relationship to other forms of knowledge. This reflection was critically updated restructured during the debate between both authors, though until now has gone relatively unnoticed.