The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity - Softcover

Rabinbach, Anson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520078276 ISBN 13: 9780520078277

Verlag: University of California Press, 1992

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Book by Anson Rabinbach

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"Rabinbach has performed a major feat of historical reconstruction. "The Human Motor is a skillful and theoretically informed synthesis of social and intellectual history."--Jackson Lears, "The New Republic

Reseña del editor:

Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature - even human nature - under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520078276
• ISBN 13: 9780520078277
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432