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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...

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Published in:Cosmos & History Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 396 - 419
Main Author: Milne, Andrew
Format: Article
Published: Ashton & Rafferty 2025
Subjects:
Modernity
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Modernism (Literature)
Utilitarianism
Modern literature
Ideological analysis
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
American authors
Existentialism
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