The Human Motor

Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

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Anson Rabinbach

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Science once had an unshakeable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature - even human nature - under control. In this book, the author examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From 19th-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the 20th-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, the author demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

January 8th, 1992

Author

Anson Rabinbach

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

432

Dimensions

156x235x28

ISBN-13

9780520078277

Product ID

3990129

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