ISBN:
019506173X
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 450 S
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Ill., graph. Darst
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25 cm
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Mumford, Lewis Congresses
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Technology and civilization Congresses
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Technology Congresses Social aspects
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Civilization, Modern Congresses 20th century
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift 1989
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1990
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift 1989
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mumford, Lewis 1895-1990
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Mumford, Lewis 1895-1990
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Technik
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Zivilisation
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Mumford, Lewis 1895-1990
Abstract:
General introduction : Mumford's modern world / Thomas P. and Agatha C. Hughes -- Mumford in historiographical context / Arthur P. Molella -- Lewis Mumford as a historian of technology in Technics and civilization / Rosalind Williams -- Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and the regional vision / John L. Thomas -- Mumford's alternatives to the megamachine : critical utopianism, regionalism, and decentralization / Howard P. Segal -- The politics of regional development : Lewis Mumford and Howard W. Odum / Allen Tullos -- The transformation of social theory / Eugene Rochberg-Halton -- The myth of the machine : I. technics and human development / Donald L. Miller -- Lewis Mumford : prophet of organicism / Leo Marx -- The visualized machine age or : Mumford and the European avant-garde / Stanislaus Von Moos
Abstract:
Inner and outer : the axiology of Lewis Mumford / Charles Molesworth -- Designing global harmony : Lewis Mumford and the United Nations headquarters / Lawrence J. Vale -- The perils of personality : Lewis Mumford and politics after liberalism / Casey Blake -- Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, and the "pragmatic acquiescence" / Robert Westbrook -- Tragedy, responsibility, and the American intellectual, 1925-1950 / Richard Wightman Fox -- Prophet of our discontent : Lewis Mumford confronts the bomb / Everett Mendelsohn -- Faith, hope, not much charity : the optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford / Michael Zuckerman
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-431) and index
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General introduction : Mumford's modern world
,
Inner and outer : the axiology of Lewis Mumford
,
Mumford in historiographical context
,
Lewis Mumford as a historian of technology in Technics and civilization
,
Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and the regional vision
,
Mumford's alternatives to the megamachine : critical utopianism, regionalism, and decentralization
,
The politics of regional development : Lewis Mumford and Howard W. Odum
,
The transformation of social theory
,
The myth of the machine : I. technics and human development
,
Lewis Mumford : prophet of organicism
,
The visualized machine age or : Mumford and the European avant-garde
,
Designing global harmony : Lewis Mumford and the United Nations headquarters
,
The perils of personality : Lewis Mumford and politics after liberalism
,
Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, and the "pragmatic acquiescence"
,
Tragedy, responsibility, and the American intellectual, 1925-1950
,
Prophet of our discontent : Lewis Mumford confronts the bomb
,
Faith, hope, not much charity : the optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford
