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Der Mensch und die Technik

Man and Technology: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life is a short book by Oswald Spengler, in which the author discusses a critique of technology and industrialism. It was published as Der Mensch und die Technik in Munich in 1931.


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“Optimism is cowardice.”

Man and Technics (1931)

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