Description
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
ISBN13: 9780520078277
ISBN10: 0520078276
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
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
ISBN13: 9780520078277
ISBN10: 0520078276
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
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).