The crowd is untruth
Subtitle: the existential critique of mass society in the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset
By: Howard N. Tuttle.
Series: American university studies.; v. 176
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.; Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955.; Existentialism.; Mass society.
Description: This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appropriated much from Kierkegaard, but recast the mass into the fundamental ontology of Das Man. Moreover, his work was informed by Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism and the will to power. Finally, the masses are considered from the vision of Ortega y Gasset's philosophy of human life.

This book relates all four of these thinkers into a philosophical perspective upon the nature of the mass.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191).