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Man and Crisis

by Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1922 · 224 pages

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A brilliant examination of the twentieth century predicament in the light of the shift in Rome from paganism to Christianity and the transition from the static world of the Middle Ages to the expanding one of the Renaissance.

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Subject
philosophyhistory
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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