The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 176
... despotism could be justified on the ground that man was a machine to begin with , and therefore had need for no more humane system of government . If men fell short of the despot's ideal , the remedy was more mechanization . The ...
... despotism could be justified on the ground that man was a machine to begin with , and therefore had need for no more humane system of government . If men fell short of the despot's ideal , the remedy was more mechanization . The ...
Page 177
... despotic regimen- tation ; for the underlying aim of despotism was to make every rank , every class , every set of dispositions equally responsive to simple signals . The nation in uniform was the ultimate political goal of this idea ...
... despotic regimen- tation ; for the underlying aim of despotism was to make every rank , every class , every set of dispositions equally responsive to simple signals . The nation in uniform was the ultimate political goal of this idea ...
Page 178
... despotism and had carried into its own depart- ment the same narrow preoccupations . By successive abstractions , man was dissociated from his personal self , his social self , his biological self , until finally all that was left was a ...
... despotism and had carried into its own depart- ment the same narrow preoccupations . By successive abstractions , man was dissociated from his personal self , his social self , his biological self , until finally all that was left was a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
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