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Democracy and Gasset’s ‘The Revolt of the Masses’: An Exposition
Abstract: Democracy simply put, is the government of “the people”. There is no doubt that the rise of “the people” is now a principal political force in our contemporary world. Though democracy is largely celebrated today, Ortega y Gasset, in his book Revolt of the Masses thinks that it is an unfortunate incident. For him, the masses, regrettably, are vulgar. The masses are drunken by the possibilities that contemporary science has …
Published in OmniScience: A Multi-disciplinary Journal · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 38–45 Read article