New Releases by Lewis Mumford

A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker''s "Sky Line" column.

Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.

"In this distinguished volume, Lewis Mumford discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the re-integration of modern civilization"--Back cover.

Geddes Mumford was born in New York in 1925 and was killed in Italy in 1944. Lewis Mumford''s narrative of his son''s nineteen years may be considered a memorial not to one boy only but to all the others as well, who, with their gifts and their promise, went down to darkness in the last -- must we say latest? -- war.

Esta obra viene a ser un tratado que aborda las relaciones de la máquina con la totalidad del ser humano, en sus aspectos social e individual. La misma consta de tres partes indivisibles: la primera revela el proceso inicial de aquellas relaciones durante la edad media, la segunda describe las tres fases -eotécnica, paleotécnica y neotécnica- en las que el autor clasifica la historia de la máquina y la tercera analiza un cumulo de actitudes psicologicas en diferentes vertientes.

A study of the development of the personality and the community.