Technics and Civilization
Lewis Mumford, 1963, Harcourt, Brace, 495 pages with index, trade paperback.
Very good condition, pages bright, some pencil underlining, cover clean, binding tight.
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.
Lewis Mumford, 1963, Harcourt, Brace, 495 pages with index, trade paperback.
Very good condition, pages bright, some pencil underlining, cover clean, binding tight.
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.
Lewis Mumford, 1963, Harcourt, Brace, 495 pages with index, trade paperback.
Very good condition, pages bright, some pencil underlining, cover clean, binding tight.
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.