Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual

by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes

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This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the numerous and brilliant facets of Lewis Mumford's insights into technology and modern culture. Characterized as one of the last of the American public intellectuals, Mumford has written extensively about those issues and problems that are most challenging and troubling for modern society. His Technics and Civilization (1934) and the two-volume The Myth of the Machine (1967 and 1970) still provide...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019506173X

ISBN13:9780195061734

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:464 Pages

Weight:2.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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Americas Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Future of Computing History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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