The outgoing aroma of culture. Aesthetics of decay

As the Spanish philosopher, sociologist and essayist Jose Ortega-I-Gasset wrote, only a slight aroma remained from culture in the modern world-leaving and already difficult to do. Civilization, based on consumption and selfish hedonism, gives rise to the degradation of social and cultural ideals, the degeneration of art. At the same time, the gasset is trying to find a special aesthetics of the decay that he sees in modern. This topic is continued by Maurice Blancho, a French writer, a thinker-essayist, trying to find an antithesis of mass culture.
The works of the gasset and blancho are distinguished not only by philosophical depth and content, but also by a wonderful literary style, which always attracted reader interest to them