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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... method , once it was widely applied , was that it opened an important part of the visible world to systematic public observa- tion , while the method itself , accessible to all who were competent to master it , lifted the results above ...
... method , once it was widely applied , was that it opened an important part of the visible world to systematic public observa- tion , while the method itself , accessible to all who were competent to master it , lifted the results above ...
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... method resulted in a clarification of ' physical events ' which gave the inventor and the engineer confidence in their ability to arrive at predictable results . As for the ' physical world ' that was described in these simple terms ...
... method resulted in a clarification of ' physical events ' which gave the inventor and the engineer confidence in their ability to arrive at predictable results . As for the ' physical world ' that was described in these simple terms ...
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Lewis Mumford. scientific method , when it ceases to deal with statistical probabilities must pass from positivism to platonism . What made the new world picture so potent was that its method of deliberately ignoring the complex reality ...
Lewis Mumford. scientific method , when it ceases to deal with statistical probabilities must pass from positivism to platonism . What made the new world picture so potent was that its method of deliberately ignoring the complex reality ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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