The Condition of ManHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 - 467 pages Since the original publication of this book, Lewis Mumford observes in his new Preface, his analysis of the weaknesses of modern civilization has been confirmed: the condition of man has worsened; "What were once only local demoralizations or disasters now threaten to turn into planetary calamities." Despite this bleak prospect, the author shuns the philosophies of anti-life made fashionable by the nihilists, the existentialists, and the "brutalists, " and, as in all his work, stresses instead an essentially hopeful view of man's nature and the possibilities for human development. |
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... values displaced qualitative discrimination . and esthetic and moral values . It was not by accident that Marco Polo was derisively nicknamed Marco Millions . Like any other merchant , he was impressed by figures ; and millions were ...
... values displaced qualitative discrimination . and esthetic and moral values . It was not by accident that Marco Polo was derisively nicknamed Marco Millions . Like any other merchant , he was impressed by figures ; and millions were ...
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... values does a disintegrated society possess for those who have lost their inner go , who are no longer a dy- namic part of a visible or imaginable whole ? Outside the values of raw barbarism , the only values that remain are those ...
... values does a disintegrated society possess for those who have lost their inner go , who are no longer a dy- namic part of a visible or imaginable whole ? Outside the values of raw barbarism , the only values that remain are those ...
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... value of , 66 Therapeutae , 90 Thinking , quantitative , 165 Thomas Aquinas . See Aqui- nas , Thomas . Thomson , J ... values , capitalist , 163 Troubadour of God , 121 Troubadours , 113 Truth , 420 ; relation to pri- vate judgment ...
... value of , 66 Therapeutae , 90 Thinking , quantitative , 165 Thomas Aquinas . See Aqui- nas , Thomas . Thomson , J ... values , capitalist , 163 Troubadour of God , 121 Troubadours , 113 Truth , 420 ; relation to pri- vate judgment ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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