The Social Pathologist

Gasset wasn't the first to notice the phenomenon of mass-man. Marx recognised his type in the lumpen-proletariat and Mencken saw his...

What fundamentally weakens Gasset's book is Gasset's own philosophical system; which, despite his accurate analysis of the problem...

Gasset's book loses steam after about mid-point and the devotes the rest of this book to the subject of the state, the cultural leadersh...

For Gasset, the decline in European Civilisation is attributed to the rise in the influence of a new type of man in history: mass-man.  A...

A book I've been meaning to write about for a while now is Ortega y Gasset's* , Revolt of the Masses. It caused quite a stir when...