Cascardi is dean of arts and humanities and professor of comparative literature, rhetoric, and Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include What is Knowledge? and The Revolt of the Masses. Jos Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by José Ortega y Gasset - Ebook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. Cascardi considers how Ortega's philosophy remains relevant and significant in the twenty-first century. This Princeton Classics edition makes this essential work, along with four of Ortega's other critical essays, available in English. Others took it as a denunciation of everything that was radical about the avant-garde. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century. Revolt of the Masses he does not only speak about sociology and, as he writes. No work of philosopher and essayist Jos Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to the public. In his work on Velzquez, for example, he does not only speak about art. A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century
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