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| Title | Abraham Rotstein: Notes on Freedom and Technology - General Comments, 1957 |
| Author | Rotstein, Abraham |
| Description | File consists of 19 typed pages of notes on “Freedom and Technology - General Comments”. Also included in the file are three articles from The Listener. The first one is a review article by Manya Harari of Dudintsev’s novel Not by Bread Alone in The Listener, February 28, 1957, pp. 339-340. The second article is titled “Modern Architecture in Finland” by J. M. Richards. The Listener, April 25, 1957, p. 670. Victor Zorza wrote the third article under the title “Soviet Writers versus the Bureaucracy”, The Listener, April 25, 1957, pp. 669-670. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/10694/113 |
| Document Date | 1957 |
Contents
Freedom & Technology - General Comment - Mass Society
[2] … Robert Owen … [3] isn't a sigle book (perhaps there is Berdayev, but he hasn't the same concreteness).
It also gives us a third front that we cannot ignore. P. is not for a Christian anarchism in Russia, restaging the whole delusion of the denial of the reality of society which P. Is fighting.
We have much more to say then we had. Ou subject was too narrow. It did smell of something antiquated. The difficulty is to make some room for socialism. Robert Owen is of enormous help. He identified the problems of society with the limitations that society puts upon us in our dealing with the problems of machine. […] question of Parsonian sociology …
[4] runs through Weber; Marx and Pareto. But they agree that we have rightly understood it. P. agrees with my point that we need more sociology and to have less metaphysical and apocalyptic.
P. wasn't sure that Bledsoe would think … […]
P. gave almost a whole day to the question of how one can write such a book, and it is almost impossible. […]
[5] … freedom with Hobbes, Spinoza and Rousseau.
This is the human history of the machine that is being written, … […]
The biggest job in 1957 is to view the world as a whole - the crisis of socialism. […]
Mannheim says that there is a mass democracy in every industrial society which is unlike medieval society. … […]
[6] That man lives by brea alone is the economistic fallacy in a socialist society.
It is a completely mistaken argument that Hitler and Mussolini came when the problem was resolved (cf. Arendt and Stolpern).
[…] (Cf. The Goethe poem about “der musen”).
[…]
[7] is right and wrong. Aristotle in politics… […] England was always Aristotelian.
[…] The French Revolution took over the absolutes state power of the ancien [8] regime. There ws no idea of society.
The Middle Ages and its … E.g. if we go into Francis Bacon, Rober Bacon, science, etc. […]
Jaspers has the idea of the masses. […] Mannheim says the modern society is democratic in an operational sense.
In the sense that each individual was separated by original sin, anarchistic Christianity is the same as atomistic individualism. In Christianity it is not the fate of mankind but the fate of each individual which is the concern. The essence of it is that society is individuals, and this is one of the interpretations of Christianity. This bought Calvin to decide on grace as predestined.