Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual

by Agatha C. Hughes and Thomas P. Hughes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019506173X
• ISBN13: 9780195061734
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"