Technological Utopianism in American Culture: Twentieth Anniversary EditionFeaturing twenty-five writers in all, this book includes Howard P. Segal's acclaimed work on utopian visionaries. |
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Side 71 - ... in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
Side 72 - On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces, which no epoch of the former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary; machinery gifted with the wonderful power of shortening and fructifying human labor, we behold starving and overworking it.
Side 82 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word...
Side 192 - Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1967), esp. 145-63; James Weinstein, The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 19001918 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968); Louis Galambos, "The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History," Business History Review 44 (1970): 279-90; Alfred D.
Side 85 - With individuals, in like manner, natural strength avails little. No individual now hopes to accomplish the poorest enterprise single-handed, and without mechanical aids ; he must make interest with some existing corporation, and till his field with their oxen. In these days, more emphatically than ever, ' to live, signifies to unite with a party, or to make one.
Side 229 - Between the dynamo in the gallery of machines and the engine-house outside, the break of continuity amounted to abysmal fracture for a historian's objects. No more relation could he discover between the steam and the electric current than between the Cross and the Cathedral. The forces were interchangeable if not reversible, but he could see only an absolute fiat in electricity as in faith.
Side 70 - But once absorbed into the production process of capital, the means of labour undergoes various metamorphoses, of which the last is the machine, or rather, an automatic system of machinery ('automatic...
Side 14 - a general state or habit of the mind,' having close relations with the idea of human perfection. Second, it came to mean 'the general state of intellectual development, in a society as a whole'.
Side 119 - By settled habit the technicians, the engineers and industrial experts, are a harmless and docile sort, well fed on the whole, and somewhat placidly content with the "full dinner-pail" which the lieutenants of the Vested Interests habitually allow them.
Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | Technological Utopianism in American Culture: Twentieth Anniversary Edition |
| Forfatter | Howard P. Segal |
| Utgave | illustrert, nytrykk, kommentert |
| Utgiver | Syracuse University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0815630611, 9780815630616 |
| Lengde | 340 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |