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Quotes notebook: Society No. 43

Carnet de citations : Société N°43 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 43

Economic development, with its apparently autonomous laws, its abstract purpose, its misunderstood contradictions, its unpredictable effects, was experienced by men, since it constituted a specific world, as a foreign destiny, alternately distributing prosperity and misery to them, and more often…

The city in history

La cité à travers l’histoire de Lewis Mumford / The city in history of Lewis Mumford

of Lewis Mumford What is the city? How did it begin? What have been the phases of its development? Is it destined to disappear, or will our planet turn into a huge urban hive, which would be, for individualized cities,…

Quotes notebook: Society No. 42

Carnet de citations : Société N°42, 45 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 42

Revolution is therefore not only necessary because it is the only way to overthrow the ruling class, it is also necessary because only a revolution will allow the class that overthrows the other to sweep away all the rottenness of…

Quotes notebook: Society No. 41

Carnet de citations : Société N°41 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 41

Strictly speaking, to criticize positivism is to focus on scientific “activity”. It is no coincidence that it has distanced itself from the concerns of humanity and that it has been so easy for it to conclude a service contract with…