Anson Rabinbach - 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 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.

Parametry

• Author: Anson Rabinbach
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• NumberOfPages: 432
• Height: 305 mm
• Length: 2261 mm
• Width: 1473 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• ReleaseDate: 1992-01-08
• Studio: University of California Press