The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human developmentFor contents, see Author Catalog. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 67
Page 36
... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
Page 74
... significance . Here and here alone man reigned supreme . This symbolic world paralleled , yet sometimes transcended ... significant gestures of much wider range , and at last by complex , ordered speech . In discussing ritual , I have ...
... significance . Here and here alone man reigned supreme . This symbolic world paralleled , yet sometimes transcended ... significant gestures of much wider range , and at last by complex , ordered speech . In discussing ritual , I have ...
Page 150
... Significant inno- vations appeared both in long - distance destruction ( cannon ) and long - distance oceanic ... Significantly , the great technical advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic ...
... Significant inno- vations appeared both in long - distance destruction ( cannon ) and long - distance oceanic ... Significantly , the great technical advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York