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The Human Motor

- Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

About The Human Motor

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780520078277
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 432
  • Published:
  • January 7, 1992
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x27 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 664 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: January 25, 2025
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
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Description of The Human Motor

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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