Lewis Mumford : public intellectual / Thomas P. Hughes, Agatha C. Hughes.

Author
Hughes, Thomas Parke [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Description
xii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      Contents
      • General introduction: Mumford's modern world / Thomas P. and Agatha C. Hughes
      • Mumford in historiographical context / Arthur P. Molella
      • Lewis Mumford as a historian of technology in Technics and civilization / Rosalind Williams
      • Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and the regional vision / John L. Thomas
      • Mumford's alternatives to the megamachine : critical utopianism, regionalism, and decentralization / Howard P. Segal
      • Politics of regional development : Lewis Mumford and Howard W. Odum / Allen Tullos
      • Transformation of social theory / Eugene Rochberg-Halton
      • Myth of the machine : I. technics and human development / Donald L. Miller
      • Lewis Mumford : prophet of organicism / Leo Marx
      • Visualized machine age or : Mumford and the European avant garde / Stanislaus Von Moos.
      • Inner and outer : the axiology of Lewis Mumford / Charles Molesworth
      • Designing global harmony : Lewis Mumford and the United Nations headquarters / Lawrence J. Vale
      • Perils of personality : Lewis Mumford and politics after liberalism / Casey Blake
      • Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, and the "pragmatic acquiescence" / Robert Westbrook
      • Tragedy, responsibility, and the American intellectual, 1925-1950 / Richard Wightman Fox
      • Prophet of our discontent : Lewis Mumford confronts the bomb / Everett Mendelsohn
      • Faith, hope, not much charity : the optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford / Michael Zuckerman.
      ISBN
      • 019506173X ((alk. paper))
      • 9780195061734 ((alk. paper))
      Tech. report no.
      89026510
      LCCN
      89026510
      OCLC
      20670353
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