CIJENA JEDNOG USPONA
THE PRICE OF A RISE. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF INTELLECTUALS IN 20TH CENTURY MASS-SOCIETIES

Summary/Abstract: The author describes, in general points, the victory of mass-societies or the ochlocratic system in Europe, North America and greater part of the World from the 18th to the second half of the 20th century and the relationship of intellectuals toward it. Many renowned intellectuals had, at the beginning, a lot of reserve toward the tendencies of creation of the ochlocratic system, especially in Germany in the 19th century, but they mostly accepted it by 1914 in North America and the majority of countries in Western and Central Europe. The ideas of technical expansion had already been mostly accepted (in the 18th and 19th centuries) as well as continual augmentation of the technical and economical powers of their national states. Intellectuals rejected, save infrequent exceptions, earlier values of spiritual autonomy, a critical approach toward their own society, holistic admission and moral personality.

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