The Revolt of the Masses

By José Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses
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Part I. The revolt of the masses -- The crowd phenomenon -- The rise of the historic level -- The level of the times -- The increase in life -- A statistical fact -- The mass-man dissected -- Noble and common life, or effort and inertia -- Why the masses intervene in everything and why they always intervene violently -- Primitivism and technology -- Primitivism and history -- The age of self-satisfaction -- The barbarism of specialization -- The greatest danger: The state -- Part II. Who rules the world? -- Who rules the world? -- We come to the real question.

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