American Democracy and “The Barbarism of Specialisation”
Without any real or compelling reasons, voting Americans freely abandoned the once-residual elements of Jeffersonian good citizenship. “The specialist ‘knows’ very well his own tiny corner of the universe; he is radically ignorant of all the rest.”-Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) It has been almost one hundred years since Spanish philosopher Jose […]
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