Technics and civilization
Mumford, Lewis
Technics and civilization by Lewis Mumford - London : University of Chicago Press, ©2010 - xxvii, 495 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cultural preparation 2. Agents of mechanization 3. The eotechnic phase 4. The Paleotechnic phase 5. The Neotechnic phase 6. Compensations and reversions 7. Assimilation of the machine 8. Orientation
'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. 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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Industrial arts -- History
Technology and civilization
303.483 / MUM-T
Technics and civilization by Lewis Mumford - London : University of Chicago Press, ©2010 - xxvii, 495 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cultural preparation 2. Agents of mechanization 3. The eotechnic phase 4. The Paleotechnic phase 5. The Neotechnic phase 6. Compensations and reversions 7. Assimilation of the machine 8. Orientation
'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. 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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9780226550275
Industrial arts -- History
Technology and civilization
303.483 / MUM-T