The Revolt of the Masses

by José Ortega y Gasset

Overview

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common denominator and drifting toward chaos brought its author international fame and has remained one of the influential books of the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393310955
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/17/1994
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	280,766
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

José Ortega y Gasset

Table of Contents

1. The Coming of the Masses 2. The Rise of the Historic Level 3. The Height of the Times 4. The Increase of Life 5. A Statistical Life 6. The Dissection of the Mass-Man Begins 7. Noble Life and Common Life, or Effort and Inertia 8. Why the Masses Intervene in Everything, and Why Their Intervention is Solely by Violence 9. The Primitive and the Technical 10. Primitivism and History 11. The Self-Satisfied Age 12. The Barbarism of ‘Specialization’ 13. The Greatest Danger, the State 14. Who Rules in the World? 15. We Arrive at the Real Question