Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure -- as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction -- is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.
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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).Casey Nelson Blake is professor of history and American studies at Columbia University and the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford.
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AT THE BEGINNING of a series of lectures, it is perhaps well to establish some common point of agreement between the lecturer and his audience; and to ensure this I shall begin by making a flat observation: We live in an interesting age! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
esthetic symbol, machine art, mechanical order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Matthew Nowicki, William Blake, Henry Adams, Middle Ages, Sorcerer's Apprentice, William James New!
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AT THE BEGINNING of a series of lectures, it is perhaps well to establish some common point of agreement between the lecturer and his audience; and to ensure this I shall begin by making a flat observation: We live in an interesting age! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
esthetic symbol, machine art, mechanical order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Matthew Nowicki, William Blake, Henry Adams, Middle Ages, Sorcerer's Apprentice, William James New!
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- Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford on 5 pages
- Myth of the Machine on 4 pages
- The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Conduct Of Life (Harvest Book, Hb 34) by Lewis Mumford in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Transformations of Man by Lewis Mumford in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture by Timothy D Taylor on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy by Carl Mitcham on page 44, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture by Timothy D Taylor on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Work, Life, Tools: The Things We Use to Do the Things We Do by Milton Glaser on page 50, and Back Matter
- Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence by Robert Wojtowicz on page 36, and page 141
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