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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Rabinbach, Anson
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| Publisher: |
University of California Press
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| Date: |
01/08/1992
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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