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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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