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Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technological civilization
ISBN : 9780156623414
Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231121057
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.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226550273
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
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 1971
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9789999119016
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
ISBN : 9780151639731
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Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804730419
What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality, with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world wars. Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers--Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Technology and civilization
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