Raymond Aron and José Ortega y Gasset: Two parallel lives in defense of liberalism

Abstract

France and Spain were two very different societies. Nevertheless, they had to face a similar problem especially in the 1930’s and during the period of the cold war, as it was the crisis of the liberalism system. José Ortega y Gasset and Raymond Aron are united in their perspective of renewal of liberal thought in front of the political forces and intellectuals who put in question. Both defended a variety of liberalism that the italian sociologist Carlo Gambescia has been called “liberalism archic”, based on the historicism and political realism.