Home > The Imperative of Modernity Summary & Study Guide

• Study Guide
• Group

The Imperative of Modernity (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

In The imperative of Modernity: An intellectual Biography of José Ortega y Gasset, Rockwell Gray has produced a sympathetic, incisive, and readable account of the thought of one of the twentieth century’s most neglected and at the same time most interesting intellectual figures, best known in the West as the author of such works as La deshumanizacion del arte (1925; The Dehumanization of Art and Notes on the Novel, 1948) and La rebellion de las masas (1929; The Revolt of the Masses, 1932). The imperative of Modernity fills a major gap in an...

[The entire page is 2302 words long]