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Човекът-маса като творец на нова култура
The Mass Man as a Creator of a New Culture

Author(s): Atanas Iliev
Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Институт за българска философска култура

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning, the author presents briefly and analyzes some ideas of Oswald Spengler and Ludwig Klages thereby developing the thesis that the optimistic primitivism of Klages is associated with Spengler’s cultural and historical pessimism and that combination brought forth the ideology of the new age. That is the ideology of the average individual, of the man of the masses, be they masses of workers or loafers, of poor or well-off people no matter whether they recognize the Soviet, fascist, national socialist or democratic state. A great part of the text is devoted to an analysis of the world outlook of the mass man presented by the Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega-y-Gassett. The author disputes the basic views of Ortega-y-Gassett, arguing that the mass man is not an enemy of culture, but rather a harbinger of a new culture that will be born in the bowels of today's dead civilization. Detached from the current intellectual elite the masses will single out their own intellectual elite which will develop its own culture.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 115-118
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Bulgarian