The Pentagon of Power, Volume 2In 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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As geographic exploration loosed the spatial bonds to a particular soil and
culture, so these new temporal explorations loosed the bonds to the immediate
present: for the first time the human mind began to move about freely in both past
and ...
As geographic exploration loosed the spatial bonds to a particular soil and
culture, so these new temporal explorations loosed the bonds to the immediate
present: for the first time the human mind began to move about freely in both past
and ...
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What is true for human habitats and human cultures holds equally for man's
historic affiliations. Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment
of all the potentialities for human development, so no single generation can
embody ...
What is true for human habitats and human cultures holds equally for man's
historic affiliations. Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment
of all the potentialities for human development, so no single generation can
embody ...
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... 385 Corruption, totalitarian, 251 Cort, Henry, 149 Cosmodrama, 415 Cosmos,
potentialities of, 415; secrets of, 314 Counter-culture, rituals of, [27]; stabilization
of Power System by, [27]; youthful desire for, 422 Cousin, Victor, 200 Craft guilds,
...
... 385 Corruption, totalitarian, 251 Cort, Henry, 149 Cosmodrama, 415 Cosmos,
potentialities of, 415; secrets of, 314 Counter-culture, rituals of, [27]; stabilization
of Power System by, [27]; youthful desire for, 422 Cousin, Victor, 200 Craft guilds,
...
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