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What does it mean to read? – Ortega y Gasset Jose – Hell Marginem – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-908105-66-8

What does it mean to read?
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This publication contains two short texts by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955): "What It Means to Read" (1962) and "The Librarian's Mission" (1935). In these works, the author discusses the essence of language, the purpose of books and attitudes toward them throughout the centuries, and the shortcomings of reading. According to the philosopher, books, as fixed, "fossilized speech," leave us with the written word, divorced from the expressive whole—the speaker's body. This initially exemplary speech becomes increasingly widespread over time, to the point of losing its original meaning: a vast number of texts are produced and published, and reading, previously an extension of thought, becomes its ersatz. Now, the librarian's task, as Ortega argues, is no longer so much to protect books from destruction as to help them emerge from the informational clutter and enable encounters with new, important meanings. The publication includes an afterword by philologist Andrei Logutov.
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