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 an agenda for discussion of technology and culture. Mumford foresightedly warned against simplistic technological determinism by exploring the ways in which values shape technology. He is generally recognized as a seminal figure who laid the foundations for the fields of American Studies and the History of Technology. This compelling portrait of Mumford, written in an accessible style, and exploring highly controversial, timely issues, makes a substantial contribution to the rapidly growing interest in the interaction of technology and culture, and is must reading for students of the history and sociology of science and technology, American studies, and American intellectual and cultural history
The well-respected public television journalist presents a series of one-on-one interviews with leading scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, and historians that outline the pressing problems America will face in the future
" Rares sont les livres doués du pouvoir d'inspirer au lecteur cette prise de conscience que l'on appelle un sentiment de révélation ", écrivait WILLIAM STYRON à la parution de The Cunning of Histbry (La Perfidie de l'Histoire).
Western Heritage ; 2,Study Guide, Workbook
The Western Heritage to 1715: Study Guide/workbook
Shares a year's worth of daily readings on topics of popular culture ranging from art and literature to consumer products and sports.
Entellektüelin kutsal kitabı
11 Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- 12 The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- 13 The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- 14 Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- 15 The Political Teaching of ...
The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
How They Changed Our Lives Reader's Digest Association. INSANITY : CONSTRAINTS TO CURES Many cultures once accepted the and to attempt treatment on a rational harmlessly insane as special people , for basis . In 1793 the French doctor ...
Russian Foreign Policy in the Near Abroad and Beyond , 197 Karen Dawisha , Current History , October 1996 . With the collapse of the Soviet empire , questions now arise regarding Russia's relationship with the newly independent states ...