Lewis Mumford
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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.
- The Myth of the Machine, Volume I: Technics and Human Development, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967.
- Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht, 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.