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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Contents
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM | 77 |
SCIENCE AS TECHNOLOGY | 105 |
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| Title | The Pentagon of Power, Volume 2 A Harvest book, HB 274 Volume 274 of Harvest book Volume 2 of Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Pentagon of Power |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Aug 3, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0156716100, 9780156716109 |
| Length | 496 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Essays |
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