Ortega's The revolt of the masses and the triumph of the new man
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New York :
Algora
2007
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- By way of an introduction
- Philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century
- 1. Revisiting the revolt of the masses
- And just who is the new man?
- The effort toward perfection
- 2. Ortega's notion of mass man and noble man
- Life presents itself to the new man as exempt from restrictions
- The spirit of self-sacrifice
- 3. Subjectivity and mass culture
- In search of Goethe from within
- Life as reflective task
- The heroic stance
- Vacations from the human condition
- The nay-saying Naturmensch
- 4. Toward a celebration of man's achievements
- Ortega's ideas about science
- 5. Toward an aesthetics of life
- 6. Nihlism and collective banality
- 7. Authenticity and borrowed opinions: The bloated ship of state
- "The whole world
- nations and individuals
- is demoralized"
- 8. Mass man: the triumph of the new man?
- "We arrive at the real question"
- 9. The new man: parody of genuine individualism
- a dearth of sincere sentiment
- Existential freedom is a tenuous thing
- Pure reason and vital life: a case of Socratic irony
- Irrationalism, sensualism and the triumph of despotic political correctness
- 10. Mass man's existential revolt and the future of human freedom
- The fight from human reality
- Embracing "post-intelligibility," contradictions and incoherence
- A surplus of entertainment and phantom leisure.
