An Irregular History of Hunting

Abstract

Ortega was an excellent hunter and a brilliant pathfinder. His treatise entitled Meditations on Hunting (1942) is a foreword to architect Count Eduardo Yebes’s hunting manual. Count Eduardo was Ortega’s old friend and hunting partner, and his work provides a detailed analysis of the sport so long pursued by men. This paper addresses readers who are captured by philosophical reflections on scholarly interpretations of hunting stories. The author, who has never practiced hunting himself, is a historian and philosopher, who delights in adventures of the exotic world of hunting.