Art and Technics

Bibliographic Data

ID10693393
AuthorsLucius Garvin, Lewis Mumford
Year1954
Volume63
Issue4
Pages636
Publication date1954-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2182310
OpenAlexW2030514725
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Lewis Mumford - architectural critic, theorist of technology, urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer, and philosopher - was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure - as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its splendid potentialities and promise and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction - is ever more relevant as the new century dawns

Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Art, Technology, and Culture · Philosophy

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