For ten points, name this seminal 1930 essay arguing that mass man's degradation of culture gives rise to fascism, written by José Ortega y Gasset.
This work includes an analysis of inertia and how it relates to man's nobility. Chapter XII asserts that "barbarism is the tendency to disassociation" and details the development of the specialist in a particular area of knowledge who refuses to acknowledge specialists in other areas, known as the "learned ignoramus". Ultimately, its focus is on the consistent violent intervention of everyday man due to his point of view, an idea also developed in its author's 1922 work Invertebrate Spain. For ten points, name this seminal 1930 essay arguing that mass man's degradation of culture gives rise to fascism, written by José Ortega y Gasset.
This work includes an analysis of inertia and how it relates to man's nobility.
The {Revolt of the Masses} or La {rebelión de las masas}