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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... evolution ; but since the two emerged almost simultaneously , they were often , unfortunately , confused in popular thought . Evolution focussed on the central fact of organic life itself . In this evolutionary perspective , mass ...
... evolution ; but since the two emerged almost simultaneously , they were often , unfortunately , confused in popular thought . Evolution focussed on the central fact of organic life itself . In this evolutionary perspective , mass ...
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... evolution , and confined to a single aspect of that evolution : adaptation and survival through natural selection . This transformation is properly associated with the work of Charles Darwin - though by the very nature of organic change ...
... evolution , and confined to a single aspect of that evolution : adaptation and survival through natural selection . This transformation is properly associated with the work of Charles Darwin - though by the very nature of organic change ...
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... evolution : it withdrew from its exponents Darwin's own best qualities - his sensitiveness , his tenderness , his direct emotional re- sponse to every manifestation of organic activity . Darwin's contribution to evolutionary doctrine ...
... evolution : it withdrew from its exponents Darwin's own best qualities - his sensitiveness , his tenderness , his direct emotional re- sponse to every manifestation of organic activity . Darwin's contribution to evolutionary doctrine ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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