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Rifkin's treatment of history best illustrates the deficiencies of a book to which any reader alienated by modern society would gravitate to as an answer to his problems. In one tidy half-page paragraph, Rifkin summarizes the historical theories of Toynbee, Spengler, Ortega y Gasset and Marx, allocating each scholar one sentence in this day of scarce resources. His next paragraphy begins...
WOHL's most effective chapter is on Spain, which he devotes to the writer Jose Ortega y Gasset. Ortega's thoughts extend beyond the contemplation of generation to historical parallels for what he saw as a world in a state of anticipation of a new type of existence. With scholarly thoroughness, Wohl unearths Ortega's lectures on Galileo that illustrate Ortega's vision of history. This chapter is effective because it centers on one man whose thoughts were important, and who was sensitive to the world trends...
...Ortega y Gasset...
...reading list was Exhibit A of the hirsute instructor's presentation. Containing authors more properly suited to a philosophy course--Huizinga, Ortega Gasset, and Mishima, among others--the list had enough clout to frighten away more than half of those who showed up for the supposed joyride...
...right that is most frequently trampled on, noted Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, 40 years ago, is the right to continuity. It is that essential link with the past that Bell is intent on reforging. Others are entering similar pleas, but Bell's seems the most brilliantly argued. Moving fluently from Marx to Mallarmé to Andy Warhol, he makes use of modernists' own arguments to reject their conclusions. His adversaries should have no trouble understanding him and perhaps heeding him. Bell's book is the year's most promising start on the long road back...