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Technics and Civilization de Lewis Mumford

Technics and Civilization

Autor Lewis Mumford Cuvânt înainte de Langdon Winner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2010
A remarkably prescient book that has become a classic analysis of the effects of technology on civilization
 
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226550275
ISBN-10: 0226550273
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Foreword by Langdon Winner
Introduction to the 1963 Edition
Captions to Images from the 1934 Edition

Objectives

Chapter I. Cultural Preparation
Chapter II. Agents of Mechanization
Chapter III.  The Eotechnic Phase
Chapter IV. The Paleotechnic Phase
Chapter V. The Neotechnic Phase
Chapter VI. Compensations and Reversions
Chapter VII. Assimilation of the Machine
Chapter VIII. Orientation

Prefatory Note
Inventions
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

“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 questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”

“An extraordinary, wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light.”

“It was a very important book, because it started this debate about the effect technologies have on societies from a political viewpoint: whether they actually enable certain political forces to take greater control over individuals. It was particularly important given the fact that it was written in the 1930s, with the rise of Nazism in Europe. I think many of the debates we’re having now--about, for example, is the internet changing our brains?--all essentially go back to some of those criticisms by Mumford.”