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Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure―as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction―is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.
Series: Bampton Lectures in America
Paperback: 178 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (May 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231121059
ISBN-13: 978-0231121057
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Wonderful perspectives abound in this book that I had read as a teenager, at my father's recommendation. I bought a copy again to reread it and pass it on to my children and many grandchildren, many of whom are philosophers at heart.
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