Nelson R. Orringer is an American Hispanist, professor of the University of Connecticut, who has published works on diverse thinkers of contemporary Spain. He is the author of works such as Ortega and his Germanic sources (Gredos, 1979), on Jose Ortega y Gasset, Unamuno and the liberal Protestants (1912): On the sources of "From the tragic feeling of life" (Gredos, 1985) about Miguel de Unamuno, The adventure of healing. The medical anthropology of Pedro Laín Entralgo (Galaxia Gutenberg-Círculo de Lectores, 1997), on Pedro Laín Entralgo, or Ángel Ganivet (1865-1898): the split intelligence, on Ángel Ganivet (Ediciones del Orto, 1998), among others .