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

Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature-even human nature-under...
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Author: Anson Rabinbach
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Language: English
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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity by Rabinbach, Anson

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

$159.40

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

$159.40
Author: Anson Rabinbach
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Anson Rabinbach
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01/08/1992
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.12w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780520078277

About the Author
Anson Rabinbach is Professor in the Department of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism (Chicago, 1983).

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