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.
  • Η ιστορία των ουτοπιών, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 1998. (in Greek) [1]
• 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.
  • Τέχνη και τεχνική, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 1997. (in Greek)
• The Myth of the Machine, Volume I: Technics and Human Development, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1967.
  • Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht, trans. Liesl Nürenberger and Arpad Hälbig, Fischer Alternativ, 1977. Translation of both volumes. (in German)
  • Mif mashiny: tekhnika i razvitie chelovechestva [Миф машины: техника и развитие человечества], trans. T. Azarkovich and B. Skuratov, Moscow: Logos, 2001, 408 pp. (in Russian)
  • Ο μύθος της μηχανής: Τεχνική και ανάπτυξη του ανθρώπου, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 2005. (in Greek) [2]
  • El mito de la máquina. Técnica y evolucion humana, trans. Arcadio Rigodón, Logroño: Pepitas, 2010, 552 pp. (in Spanish)
• The Myth of the Machine, Volume II: The Pentagon of Power, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1970.
  • Ο μύθος της μηχανής: Το πεντάγωνο της ισχύος, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 2005. (in Greek) [3]
  • Pentagon moći: Mit o mašini 2, trans. Nikica Petrak, Zagreb: GZH, 1986; Belgrade: anarhija, 2009. (in Serbo-Croatian)
  • El mito de la máquina. El pentágono del poder, trans. Javier Rodríguez Hidalgo, Logroño: Pepitas, 2011, 800 pp. (in Spanish)
• Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford, New York: Dial Press, 1982, 500 pp.

Collected writings

• The Lewis Mumford Reader, ed. Donald L. Miller, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
• Mumford on Modern Art in The 1930s, ed. Robert Wojtowicz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Selected articles

• "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics", Technology and Culture 5:1 (Winter 1964), pp 1-8.
• More.

External links

• Mumford on the City II, Cars or People, video, 1963.
• Biography by Eugene Halton
• Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany, *1988.
• Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia