The Human Motor – Energy, Fatigue & the Origina of Modernity : Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520078276
ISBN-13
9780520078277
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 8th, 1992
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
664 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesCultural studiesAnthropologyScience: general issues
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Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.
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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