Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

Literature

Books by Mumford

• The Story of Utopias, 1922.
• Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924.
• The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1926.
• Herman Melville, New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1929.
• The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1931.
• Technics and Civilization, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1934.
  • Tecnica y civilizacion, trans. Aznar de Acevedo, Alianza, 1971; 1992. (in Spanish)
• The Culture of Cities, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1938.
• Men Must Act, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1939.
• Faith for Living, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1940.
• The South in Architecture, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1941.
• The Condition of Man, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944.
• City Development: Studies in Disintegration and Renewal, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1945.
• Values for Survival: Essays, Addresses, and Letters on Politics and Education, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1946.
• Green Memories: The Story of Geddes, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1947.
• The Conduct of Life, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1951.
• Art and Technics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
• The Myth of the Machine, Volume I: Technics and Human Development; Volume II: The Pentagon of Power, 1966 and 1964.
  • Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht, Fischer Alternativ, 1977. (in German)
  • Миф машины: техника и развитие человечества, Logos, 2001. (in Russian)

Books on Mumford

• Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford, New York: Dial Press, 1982.
• Donald L. Miller (ed.), The Lewis Mumford Reader, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
• Mumford on Modern Art in The 1930s, edited and introduced by Robert Wojtowicz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

External links

• Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia
• Biography by Eugene Halton