The revolt of the masses.
By: Authorized translation from the Spanish.
Edition: [25th anniversary ed.]
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Civilization.; Proletariat.; Europe -- Civilization.
First sentence: There is one fact which, whether for good or ill, is of utmost importance in the public life of Europe at the present moment.
Description: From 1200 to 1800 A.D. the population of the Western World remained almost constant. In the last 100 years in Europe and America the population has tripled in numbers. Out of this has arizen the phenomenon of the mass-man.
Can Western culture survive the encroachments of the mass-man? Can republican institutions survive this chaotic democracy? These are the problems to which Ortega's book seeks a realistic solution.

"What Rousseau's 'Contrat Social' was for the eighteenth century and Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital' was for the nineteenth, Senor Ortega's 'Revolt of the Masses' should be for the twentieth century." (Atlantic Monthly)
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
The Spanish original, "La Rebelion de las Masas," was published in 1930. (verso of tp)
Table of contents: title: Prefatory Note
pagenum: 7; title: The Coming of the Masses
pagenum: 11; title: The Rise of the Historic Level
pagenum: 19; title: The Height of the Times
pagenum: 28; title: The Increase of Life
pagenum: 38; title: A Statistical Fact
pagenum: 47; title: The Dissection of the Mass-Man Begins
pagenum: 54; title: Noble Life and Common Life, or Effort and Inertia
pagenum: 61; title: Why the Masses Intervene in Everything, and Why Their Intervention Is Solely by Violence
pagenum: 68; title: The Primitive and the Technical
pagenum: 78; title: Primitivism and History
pagenum: 88; title: The Self-Satisfied Age
pagenum: 97; title: The Barbarism of "Specialisation"
pagenum: 107; title: The Greatest Danger, the State
pagenum: 115; title: Who Rules in the World?
pagenum: 125; title: We Arrive at the Real Question
pagenum: 187