 | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eugene Rochberg-Halton, Eugene Halton - Psychology - 1981 - 324 pages
...civilization. In his well-known conclusion to The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism he remarks: No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | Joel Kovel - History - 1984 - 368 pages
...people are to be more human than others, is culture's province to define. CHAPTER THE HISTORICAL MATRIX No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | Wolfgang Schluchter - History - 1985 - 216 pages
...the totality of modern Western culture can negate all other cultural configurations. We do not know whether "at the end of this tremendous development...new prophets will arise or whether there will be a powerful rebirth of old ideas and ideals." 30 Nor has the rationalism of world mastery incorporated... | |
 | Andreas E. Buss - History - 1985 - 140 pages
...cage. But victorious capitalism, since it rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer. No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether... entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or if neither,... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - Social Science - 1990 - 388 pages
...Weber deliberately substitutes apocalyptic expectations for the millennial ones of the Enlighteners: No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter - History - 1990 - 360 pages
...capitalists and workers alike (because we live within the cage we are necessarily members of the masses). No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | Philip Rieff - Literary Collections - 1990 - 429 pages
...complacent in it. His prosperity, stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, becomes a plush cage. "No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrifaction, embellished... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 378 pages
...fertile m ind and creative imagination of its author. Cited extensively, this passage is worth recalling: No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 470 pages
...become associated with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character of sport. No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... | |
 | James T. Richardson, Joel Best, David G. Bromley - Social Science - 1991 - 332 pages
...oft quoted verse lies at the end of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: "No one knows who will live in this cage in the future,...tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with... | |
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No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished... 
