Technics and Civilizations - Softcover

Mumford, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015688254X ISBN 13: 9780156882545

Publisher: Harcourt, 1963

Synopsis

This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.

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Review:

"The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three-quarters of a century after they were written." - Technology and Culture "A brilliant historical and critical account of the effect of the artificial environment on man and of man on the environment, a necessary account, one for which we have waited too long in English." - New York Times"

About the Author:

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) was a writer whose scope encompassed literary criticism, architecture, history, urban sociology, and philosophy. The author of over thirty books, he was also the architectural critic for The New Yorker for over thirty years. He was eventually honored with the United States Medal of Freedom and Knight of the Order of the British Empire.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1963
• ISBN 10: 015688254X
• ISBN 13: 9780156882545
• Binding: Paperback