The Social Pathologist

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...

Whenever I propose to limit the franchise to a competent minority,  people immediately assume that I wish to restrict the vote to what are...

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...