The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... Comenius , the Moravian teacher and theologian . As a philosopher Comenius established his general theory of teaching on the necessity of order , in its most generalized aspects , but he was completely under the spell of the new ...
... Comenius , the Moravian teacher and theologian . As a philosopher Comenius established his general theory of teaching on the necessity of order , in its most generalized aspects , but he was completely under the spell of the new ...
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... Comenius elsewhere explains , " it will be no harder to teach schoolboys in any number desired , than with the help of the printing press to cover a thousand sheets daily with the neatest writing . " Close upon this follows another ...
... Comenius elsewhere explains , " it will be no harder to teach schoolboys in any number desired , than with the help of the printing press to cover a thousand sheets daily with the neatest writing . " Close upon this follows another ...
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... Comenius , John Amos , 102-103 ' Coming Race , The , ' 214 Commoner , Barry , 337 Communal complexity , mechanical re- jection of , 84 Communication , limitations on , 189 ; oral , 298 ; organic nature of , 297 Communications systems ...
... Comenius , John Amos , 102-103 ' Coming Race , The , ' 214 Commoner , Barry , 337 Communal complexity , mechanical re- jection of , 84 Communication , limitations on , 189 ; oral , 298 ; organic nature of , 297 Communications systems ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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