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The Human Motor

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Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

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The Human Motor, Anson Rabinbach, Wolfgang Bialas

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1992
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Title
The Human Motor
Language
English
Released
1992
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0520078276
ISBN13
9780520078277
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Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.