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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... Henry Adams , who saw the import of this change well before there was an adequate history in either department . More than half a century ago , he perceived that there had been a constant increase in energy and an acceler- ated use from ...
... Henry Adams , who saw the import of this change well before there was an adequate history in either department . More than half a century ago , he perceived that there had been a constant increase in energy and an acceler- ated use from ...
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... Henry Adams sought scientific aid for his interpretation , he was unable to enlist it : so unfortunately , in search of some sort of theoretic scaffolding , he attached his observations to a quite irrelevant physical prin- ciple ...
... Henry Adams sought scientific aid for his interpretation , he was unable to enlist it : so unfortunately , in search of some sort of theoretic scaffolding , he attached his observations to a quite irrelevant physical prin- ciple ...
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... Adams was not at home in a world where human intentions counted and human actions , though quantitatively insignificant , might sometimes , as J. Clerk Maxwell believed , be decisive . But if Henry Adams failed to give an adequate ...
... Adams was not at home in a world where human intentions counted and human actions , though quantitatively insignificant , might sometimes , as J. Clerk Maxwell believed , be decisive . But if Henry Adams failed to give an adequate ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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