The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 176
... machine . To make men mechanical was merely to reverse the process of making machines human . Historians have hardly noted with enough emphasis the effect of the advancing technics of this period upon the concepts of political rule ...
... machine . To make men mechanical was merely to reverse the process of making machines human . Historians have hardly noted with enough emphasis the effect of the advancing technics of this period upon the concepts of political rule ...
Page 194
... machine : here and only here does Max Weber's theory of the interplay of Protestantism and capitalism at last receive the corroboration of historic facts . It is no accident that the theorists and practical inventors of the machine , in ...
... machine : here and only here does Max Weber's theory of the interplay of Protestantism and capitalism at last receive the corroboration of historic facts . It is no accident that the theorists and practical inventors of the machine , in ...
Page 373
... machine . The war machine , the finance machine , the industrial machine , the edu- cation machine - all these agents redoubled their interest in technique for its own sake : the l'art pour l'art of practice . Witness the manner in ...
... machine . The war machine , the finance machine , the industrial machine , the edu- cation machine - all these agents redoubled their interest in technique for its own sake : the l'art pour l'art of practice . Witness the manner in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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