Main entry:

Hughes, Thomas Parke.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Description:

xii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-431) and index.
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.
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Resources:
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ISBN:

019506173X (alk. paper)
9780195061734 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Congresses.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 Et la technologie et la civilisation Congrès.
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
Mumford, Lewis 1895-1990
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990$vCongresses.
Mumford, Lewis.
Technology and civilization Congresses.
Technology Social aspects Congresses.
Civilization, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Technologie et civilisation Congrès.
Technologie Aspect social Congrès.
Civilisation 20e siècle Congrès.
Civilization, Modern.
Technology and civilization.
Technology Social aspects.
Technik
Zivilisation
Kongress
Aufsatzsammlung
Technologie.
Maatschappij.
Culture Related to Technology

Form/genre:

Congress
Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Philadelphia (Pa.) 1989.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Hughes, Agatha C.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56855
Call No.: ID:90-B5153
Status: Available