The Conduct of LifeDiscusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Lewis Mumford. CHAPTER VIII . THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1 : THE OPTIMISM OF PATHOLOGY Every formative movement in culture , if profound enough to begin a new cycle of development , seems to start ... DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1: The Optimism of Pathology.
Lewis Mumford. CHAPTER VIII . THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1 : THE OPTIMISM OF PATHOLOGY Every formative movement in culture , if profound enough to begin a new cycle of development , seems to start ... DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1: The Optimism of Pathology.
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... dramatic theme . This theme is defined and modified by recurrent collective choices . Drama , taking form in the theater , constantly appears as a symbol of a culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines ...
... dramatic theme . This theme is defined and modified by recurrent collective choices . Drama , taking form in the theater , constantly appears as a symbol of a culture , at the moment the culture itself transforms stereotyped routines ...
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... drama and find themselves without any part : each the undistinguished member of an aimless crowd of un- employed people . In such a state , only one thing can save the lost in- dividual or his society : a new drama . When they are ...
... drama and find themselves without any part : each the undistinguished member of an aimless crowd of un- employed people . In such a state , only one thing can save the lost in- dividual or his society : a new drama . When they are ...
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