Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity / Christoph Asendorf...
Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity / Christoph Asendorf...
Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity / Christoph Asendorf ; translated by Don Reneau.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
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NQ700.9034/1
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vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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1. The Body, the Economy, and the World of Things. 1. L'homme machine. 2. Vathek, or Disintegration. 3. German Romanticism: Money and Happiness, or the Eroticism of the World of Things -- 2. From the "Ego Crystal Forest" To the Crystal Palace -- 3. Economy and Metamorphosis. Excursus: Grandville, or...
2. The Production of the "Faculty for Delusion" 3. The Role of Things -- 10. The Production of "Homogeneous and Empty Time" -- 11. Nerves and Electricity. 1. On the Romantic Image of Electricity. 2. Polarity and Sexual Attraction. 3. The Image of Electricity between Hegel's Phenomenology and Kleist:...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
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California
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c1993.
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Batteries of life : on the history of things and their perception in modernity / Christoph Asendorf ; translated by Don Reneau.
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Weimar and now ; 4.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-244) and index.
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c1993.
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NQ700.9034/1
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0520065735 (cloth)
9780520065734 (cloth)
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700.9034
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991021343529702626
