HENRY MILLER AND THE MECHANISM OF MODERNITY.
Like many twentieth century writers, Henry Miller diagnosed a "spiritual famine" besetting modern civilisation. This condition was, Miller believed, characteristic of a mechanistic mode of thought that viewed everything from the outside, and whose only values were strictly instrumental. This essay f...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 396 - 419 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2025
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| Sumario: | Like many twentieth century writers, Henry Miller diagnosed a "spiritual famine" besetting modern civilisation. This condition was, Miller believed, characteristic of a mechanistic mode of thought that viewed everything from the outside, and whose only values were strictly instrumental. This essay focuses on Miller's works from the 1930s, and seeks to present his diagnosis in its broader intellectual context. |
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