Roberto Sánchez Benítez
Los pensadores españoles María Zambrano y José Gaos fueron notables discípulos de José Ortega y Gasset, entendieron a su manera el “silencio” que su maestro guardó durante la guerra civil española, viviendo el exilio de manera singular. Sus interpretaciones remiten, por un lado, al problema de la palabra y el silencio que la circunda y la hace posible, sobre todo si es “profética”, mientras que, por el otro, aluden al sentido que llegó a tener la figura del intelectual ante ese nuevo fenómeno inédito que dominó el escenario de las sociedades occidentales en el siglo XX, a saber, la “masa”.
Spanish intellectuals María Zambrano and José Gaos were notable disciples of José Ortega y Gasset, who understood in their own way the “silence” that their mentor kept during the Spanish Civil War, living in exile in a unique way. Their interpretations refer, on the one hand, to the problem of the word and the silence that both surrounds it and makes it possible, especially if it is “prophetic”, while, on the other hand, they allude to the meaning that the figure of the intellectual came to have given this new, unprecedented phenomenon that dominated this stage of Western societies in the 20th century, namely the “masses”.