Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

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Zusammenfassung

Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution.

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Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution.
"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"
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 named a Knight of the Order of the British Empire.
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ISBN 13 9780226550275
ISBN 10 0226550273
Titel Technics and Civilization
Autor Lewis Mumford
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2010-10-30
Seitenanzahl 528
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