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* ''Green Memories: The Story of Geddes'', New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1947. | * ''Green Memories: The Story of Geddes'', New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1947. | ||
* ''The Conduct of Life'', New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1951. | * ''The Conduct of Life'', New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1951. | ||
− | * ''Art and Technics'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. | + | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11077 Art and Technics]'', New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. |
+ | ** ''[[Media:Mumford_Lewis_%CE%A4%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B7_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE.pdf|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. | * ''The Myth of the Machine, Volume I: Technics and Human Development'', Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1967. | ||
** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=272 Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht]'', trans. Liesl Nürenberger and Arpad Hälbig, Fischer Alternativ, 1977. Translation of both volumes. (in German) | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=272 Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht]'', trans. Liesl Nürenberger and Arpad Hälbig, Fischer Alternativ, 1977. Translation of both volumes. (in German) | ||
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* ''The Lewis Mumford Reader'', ed. Donald L. Miller, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. | * ''The Lewis Mumford Reader'', ed. Donald L. Miller, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. | ||
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=273 Mumford on Modern Art in The 1930s]'', ed. Robert Wojtowicz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=273 Mumford on Modern Art in The 1930s]'', ed. Robert Wojtowicz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. | ||
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+ | ; Selected articles | ||
+ | * [http://www.collier.sts.vt.edu/engl4874/pdfs/mumford_1964.pdf "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics"], ''Technology and Culture'' 5:1 (Winter 1964), pp 1-8. | ||
+ | * [http://mumford.albany.edu/mumford/selected_work.htm More]. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
+ | * [http://www3.nd.edu/~ehalton/mumfordbio.html Biography by Eugene Halton] | ||
+ | * [http://mumford.albany.edu/mumford/ Lewis Mumford Center] at the University at Albany, *1988. | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia] | ||
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[[Category:Philosophy of technology|Mumford, Lewis]] | [[Category:Philosophy of technology|Mumford, Lewis]] |
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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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- Biography by Eugene Halton
- Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany, *1988.
- Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia