caa a22 4500 606172289 CHVBK 20210128100727.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-014-0267-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-014-0267-4 Vandebosch Dagmar KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium aut The aristocrat as average man: the uses of "aristocracy” in Ortega's The Revolt of the Masses [Elektronische Daten] [Dagmar Vandebosch] This article studies the concept of "aristocracy” in The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset. While the work's definition of "aristocracy,” in opposition to the concept of "mass-man” or "average man,” is generally studied in its metaphorical sense, the present article analyses the role of aristocracy in a referential sense, i.e. as referring to a privileged social class. It does so on two different levels. First, an analysis of references to the aristocracy elucidates the complex communicational strategy of the book, which appeals to both Spanish and European readers. Second, it is argued that references to the history of aristocracy as a social class point to the central, but ultimately eluded, question of the work: the reasons for the tragic disintegration of 19th-century civilisation into its exact opposite. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 Spanish literature nationallicence Aristocracy nationallicence Mass culture nationallicence (History of) Europe nationallicence Elitism nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 119-128 0324-4652 42:1<119 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0267-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-014-0267-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Vandebosch Dagmar KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 119-128 0324-4652 42:1<119 2015 42 11059