Starting with Galileo and his effect on history, Ortega y Gasset,
acclaimed as the greatest intellectual force in modern Spain and
one of the outstanding minds of our century, traces the transition
in man's philosophy and reasoning, going further back to the change
from paganism to Christianity and from the Greeks to the present.
The present here is a period of disorientation rather than
desperation. Wandering easily back and forth, his approach, as once
described by himself, is that of "marching seven times 'round the
walls of Jericho", and is effected to orient the reader to the
present by a review of the past, believing that all movements
characteristic of this moment are extreme and historically false
and headed for failure since all extremism inevitably fails. The
ending is abrupt - without conclusions - but this work should rank,
for the layman, among the best of his efforts; for the philosopher
and historian it should have its special importance. ??A posthumous
work from the 1940's (the author died in 1955), this, in content,
precedes the previous Man and People (1957) and is translated by
Mildred Adams. (Kirkus Reviews)
A brilliant examination of the twentieth century predicament in the light of the shift in Rome from pragmatism to Christianity and the transition from the static world of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
"A worthy companion of the author's The Revolt of the Masses. Both books are marked by the brilliance, originality, and depth of the author's interpretation of the crisis of our age and of the the basic historical processes." —Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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