The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... collective totalitarian despotism which he confounded with democracy . Hobbes started from two contradictory but related assumptions . One was that men were virtual machines ; the other that they were just the opposite , incurably wild ...
... collective totalitarian despotism which he confounded with democracy . Hobbes started from two contradictory but related assumptions . One was that men were virtual machines ; the other that they were just the opposite , incurably wild ...
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... collective disintegration is first recorded is in deeper levels of the mind . Yet any attempt to make a quantitative estimate of the deterioration that has taken place here by compiling current statistics of crime , mental illness ...
... collective disintegration is first recorded is in deeper levels of the mind . Yet any attempt to make a quantitative estimate of the deterioration that has taken place here by compiling current statistics of crime , mental illness ...
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... collective dismember- ment of , 196 ; reduction of , 306 Human person , 434 Human personality , devaluation of , 60 ; irrational factor in , 430 Human possibilities , fresh picture of , 434 Human potentialities , richness of , 191 Human ...
... collective dismember- ment of , 196 ; reduction of , 306 Human person , 434 Human personality , devaluation of , 60 ; irrational factor in , 430 Human possibilities , fresh picture of , 434 Human potentialities , richness of , 191 Human ...
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THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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