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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... Patrick Geddes . And a few of these leaders carried into personal practice some of the most fundamental changes , already touched on in my estimate of Leonardo da Vinci : indifference to money incentives , the liberation from self ...
... Patrick Geddes . And a few of these leaders carried into personal practice some of the most fundamental changes , already touched on in my estimate of Leonardo da Vinci : indifference to money incentives , the liberation from self ...
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... Patrick Geddes : Maker of the Future . Chapel Hill , N.C .: 1944 . Useful on Geddes ' educational ideas ; but fortunately an enlarged and enriched study by Boardman is now in preparation . Bodleian Library Record : July 1968 . Report on ...
... Patrick Geddes : Maker of the Future . Chapel Hill , N.C .: 1944 . Useful on Geddes ' educational ideas ; but fortunately an enlarged and enriched study by Boardman is now in preparation . Bodleian Library Record : July 1968 . Report on ...
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... Geddes , Patrick . An Analysis of the Principles of Economics . Part I. London : 1885 . Geddes , Patrick , and J. Arthur Thomson . Life : Outlines of Biology . 2 vols . New York : 1931 . The best summation of Geddes ' outlook and method ...
... Geddes , Patrick . An Analysis of the Principles of Economics . Part I. London : 1885 . Geddes , Patrick , and J. Arthur Thomson . Life : Outlines of Biology . 2 vols . New York : 1931 . The best summation of Geddes ' outlook and method ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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