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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Page 58
He had no notion that his radical distinction between the external world and the
internal world, between the objective and the subjective, between the quantitative
and the qualitative, between the mathematically describable, and thus knowable
...
He had no notion that his radical distinction between the external world and the
internal world, between the objective and the subjective, between the quantitative
and the qualitative, between the mathematically describable, and thus knowable
...
Page 420
The failure to create a coherent transcendental world picture that did sufficient
justice to the existential and subjectively unalterable facts of human experience
has been the fatal weakness of all religions. But this subjective error has now
been ...
The failure to create a coherent transcendental world picture that did sufficient
justice to the existential and subjectively unalterable facts of human experience
has been the fatal weakness of all religions. But this subjective error has now
been ...
Page 492
... 252 Strategy, thermo-nuclear, 268 Stroboscopic lights, [27] Structures,
symbolic, 415 Struggle for existence, 388, 392; Hobbes- ian, 102 Student power,
374 Study Group for the Life Apparatus, 319 'Study of History, A,' 417, 426
Subjective ...
... 252 Strategy, thermo-nuclear, 268 Stroboscopic lights, [27] Structures,
symbolic, 415 Struggle for existence, 388, 392; Hobbes- ian, 102 Student power,
374 Study Group for the Life Apparatus, 319 'Study of History, A,' 417, 426
Subjective ...
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