Technics and Civilization - 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lewis Mumford (1895-1979) was the author of numerous important books on American culture, technology, architecture, and urban life, including Technics and Civilization (1934); The Culture of Cities (1938); The City in History (1961); Myth of the Machine I: Technics and Human Development (1967); and Myth of the Machine II: Pentagon of Power (1970).

Review:

“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.” (The New York Times)

“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.”—Journal of Technology and Culture (Journal of Technology and Culture)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1963
• ISBN 10: 015688254X
• ISBN 13: 9780156882545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 495