Technics and CivilizationHarcourt, Brace, 1934 - 495 pages |
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... culture as the fantasies of night dominate the mind of a sleeper : it is reality — while the sleep lasts . But , like the sleeper , a culture lives within an objective world that goes on through its sleeping or waking , and sometimes ...
... culture as the fantasies of night dominate the mind of a sleeper : it is reality — while the sleep lasts . But , like the sleeper , a culture lives within an objective world that goes on through its sleeping or waking , and sometimes ...
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... culture : it is still a vital part of the tradition of Western culture . Tempering the eotechnic tendency toward intellectual abstractionism , these sen- sual expressions formed a profound contrast to the contraction and starvation of ...
... culture : it is still a vital part of the tradition of Western culture . Tempering the eotechnic tendency toward intellectual abstractionism , these sen- sual expressions formed a profound contrast to the contraction and starvation of ...
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... culture ultimately depend were either counted as losses , or were ignored , because they remained outside the commercial scheme of accountancy . What are , then , the essentials of the economic processes in rela- tion to energy and to ...
... culture ultimately depend were either counted as losses , or were ignored , because they remained outside the commercial scheme of accountancy . What are , then , the essentials of the economic processes in rela- tion to energy and to ...
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OBJECTIVES CONTENTS | xii |
Machines Utilities and The Machine | xii |
The Monastery and the Clock | xii |
Droits d'auteur | |
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