Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Informationen zum Autor Anson Rabinbach Klappentext The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of "the great utopias of labor" in the first half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of “the great utopias of labor” in the first half of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Anson Rabinbach
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780823278572
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7857-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries