by Jose Ortega y Gasset · Espasa Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423920075
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«La rebelión de las masas» is the philosophical essay by José Ortega y Gasset, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
In this essay, Ortega y Gasset analyses the society of his time: the rise of the masses to social and political power and the loss of individual values. The author warns of the dangers of massification and defends the need for an intellectual minority to guide public life and lead society.
1984 edition, no. 7 of Selecciones Austral, with an introduction by Julián Marías; includes a prologue for French readers, an epilogue for English readers and an appendix, «Dinámica del tiempo».
For those seeking a classic of Spanish philosophical essay and interested in social and political criticism.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
