The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Lewis Mumford. CHAPTER VIII . THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1 : THE OPTIMISM OF PATHOLOGY Every formative movement in culture , if profound enough to begin a new cycle of development , seems to start ... DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1: The Optimism of Pathology.
Lewis Mumford. CHAPTER VIII . THE DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1 : THE OPTIMISM OF PATHOLOGY Every formative movement in culture , if profound enough to begin a new cycle of development , seems to start ... DRAMA OF RENEWAL 1: The Optimism of Pathology.
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... drama belongs to the lumber room of history or to the heating and plumbing system of the theater : necessary incidents to producing the drama , but with no specific reference to what takes place on the stage . Who would go to the ...
... drama belongs to the lumber room of history or to the heating and plumbing system of the theater : necessary incidents to producing the drama , but with no specific reference to what takes place on the stage . Who would go to the ...
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... drama , manifest themselves in an upsurge of untrammeled lust and aggression , greed and senseless violence . Since men do nothing without some form of ideological disguise , if not support , this de- thronement of the super - ego ...
... drama , manifest themselves in an upsurge of untrammeled lust and aggression , greed and senseless violence . Since men do nothing without some form of ideological disguise , if not support , this de- thronement of the super - ego ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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