“Senor Ortega y Gasset has contributed a considerate and a cautious research of our current scenario. If he's right, then nationalism and liberalism as we have now identified them long ago are doomed. a brand new and maybe a greater order and conditioning of lifestyles are at the approach. This publication makes an attempt to justify traditionally the arrival of serious change―the related nice swap that used to be prophesied via William Morris in England, greater than part a century ago.” ―The ny Times
4 stimulating essays: “The Sportive beginning of the State,” “Unity and variety of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The essays by way of Ortega during this quantity have been initially released below the name Toward a Philosophy of History.
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