Technics and Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technics and Civilization write by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 2010-10-30. Technics and Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “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
Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technics and Civilization write by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 1984. Technics and Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Art and Technics
Art and Technics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Technics write by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 2000. Art and Technics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.
Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932)
Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932) write by Oswald Spengler. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.
The City in History
The City in History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City in History write by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 1961. The City in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
