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The various categories chosen to present the work of
Ferrater Mora are somewhat arbitrary and artificial. The distinction
between speculative and expository works, for example, is not always
sharp for expository works can also be speculative and original as is
shown by the works listed here. These selections, however, display
Ferrater Mora’s ideas on another philosopher’s thought as
opposed to his own philosophical ideas, and thus may be considered
expository: his book on Ortega y Gasset, his book on Miguel de
Unamuno, and some of his articles published in philosophical and
literary journals certainly elucidate the thought of other
philosophers. Nevertheless, it is not entirely clear that the books in
this section are accurately described as expository.
Cuatro visiones
de la historia universal, for instance, could be placed
easily in a category entitled “The Philosopher of
History.” Ferrrater Mora himself considered El mundo del
escritor to be a work of literary criticism. Perhaps
other books mentioned here deserve additional sections, but mindful of
Occam’s razor, for the moment at least, I will lump them
together as expository, even if they do not all fit perfectly within
this category.
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