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"What Rousseau's Contrat Social was for the eighteenth
century and Karl Marx's Das Kapital for the nineteenth, |
Senor Ortega's Revolt of the Masses should he for the
twentieth century."—Atlantic Monthly
THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES
From 1200 to 1800 A.D. the population of the Western World
remained almost constant. In the last one hundred years in
Europe and America the population has tripled in numbers. •
Out of this has risen the phenomenon of the mass-man.
Can Western culture survive the encroachments of the mass-
man ? Can republican institutions survive this chaotic democ-
racy? These are the problems to which Ortega's book seeks
a realistic solution.
José Ortega y Gasset
Born in Madrid in 1883, José Ortega y Gasset was one of the
intellectual leaders of the Spanish Republican government.
After the establishment of the Republic, Ortega became a
member of Parliament. He also held for many years the chair
of metaphysics at the University of Madrid and was editor...
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Fülszöveg
"What Rousseau's Contrat Social was for the eighteenth
century and Karl Marx's Das Kapital for the nineteenth, |
Senor Ortega's Revolt of the Masses should he for the
twentieth century."—Atlantic Monthly
THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES
From 1200 to 1800 A.D. the population of the Western World
remained almost constant. In the last one hundred years in
Europe and America the population has tripled in numbers. •
Out of this has risen the phenomenon of the mass-man.
Can Western culture survive the encroachments of the mass-
man ? Can republican institutions survive this chaotic democ-
racy? These are the problems to which Ortega's book seeks
a realistic solution.
José Ortega y Gasset
Born in Madrid in 1883, José Ortega y Gasset was one of the
intellectual leaders of the Spanish Republican government.
After the establishment of the Republic, Ortega became a
member of Parliament. He also held for many years the chair
of metaphysics at the University of Madrid and was editor of
the influential journal of opinion, Revista de Occidente.
Other titles by Ortega in Norton Paperbacks
Man and Crisis (N121)
History as a System (N122)
Man and People (N123)
Concord and Liberty (N124)
Meditations on Quixote (N125)
What is Philosophy? (N126)
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