José Ortega Y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega Y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Sam Kahn
- Full Title: José Ortega Y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses
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Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- But with the 19th century, a new sensibility comes to the fore. This is scientific progress — Ortega y Gasset calls it ‘technicism’ — which drives population forward and provides a host of new conveniences that require no particular work from the population-at-large; and then the doctrine of ‘human rights,’ which makes the ‘mass’ entitled to all possible conveniences whether or not they had anything to do with their creation or manufacture.
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