As pointed out by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) in his epoch-making work The Revolt of the Masses (1929)2, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Western World had witnessed
the emergence of the common populace to a position of economic and political influence in human society. Being essentially of republican sympathies, and sympathizing with the exploited underclasses of Western Civilization, Ortega readily recognized the positive implications of this mass phenomenon for the people in general. At the same time, however, he feared that this ascendance of the uncouth, boorish, and unwashed masses might lead to civilization's relapse into a new form of barbarism.
As pointed out by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) in his epoch-making work The Revolt of the Masses (1929)2, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Western World had witnessedthe emergence of the common populace to a position of economic and political influence in human society. Being essentially of republican sympathies, and sympathizing with the exploited underclasses of Western Civilization, Ortega readily recognized the positive implications of this mass phenomenon for the people in general. At the same time, however, he feared that this ascendance of the uncouth, boorish, and unwashed masses might lead to civilization's relapse into a new form of barbarism.
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