Saturday, August 27, 2011

Relating Ortega y Gasset to conservatism

IC's Top 25 Philosophical and Ideological Conservative Books
No. 19 - Jose Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
by Dr. Enrico Peppe

But is the assessment correct? Reading the summary makes me think Ortega y Gasset was more likely Nietzsche, though perhaps not a nihilist. I started Revolt of the Masses, but...

Ortega y Gasset’s Metaphysical Cure for Invertebrate Cultures
Ortega y Gasset's “Revolt” and the Problem of Mass Rule

Related:
Review of Christopher Lasch's Revolt of the Elites

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