Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsMumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
Avis d'utilisateur - Seppo - GoodreadsI just finished the Pentagon of Power. Mumford presents a broad overview of ancient and modern power relations and how this has lead to the Megamachine now engulfing the world. Still he thinks a ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Bryan Kibbe - GoodreadsI continue to enjoy reading Lewis Mumford. He is both a versatile and expansive thinker, and his writing is often punctuated by interesting images and comparisons. The Myth of the Machine is part 1 of ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Neil - GoodreadsThis book makes more sense in the context of the intellectual environment to which Mumford was responding in the early to mid 20th century. Many prominent thinkers (including Mumford himself in the ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Owen - GoodreadsAn analysis well ahead of its time. Chapters 9 and 10 are particularly important. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Leon M - GoodreadsIn the "Myth of the Machine", Lewis Mumford depicts his version of human development from a hunter-gatherer society to our present, technology focused society. The first interesting idea mentioned is ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Dylan - GoodreadsAfter one false start three or four years ago, I picked this up again early last year. I'll admit, it was pretty rough going for me, but that's largely because the first half of the book doesn't ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
Avis d'utilisateur - Leon M - GoodreadsIn the second part of Lewis Mumford's "Myth of the Machine", he sets out to explore the consequences of the rise of the new sun god science and give an alternative to what he calls the new megamachine ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Patrick\ - GoodreadsA bit of an over-reach from his usual solid perspective. Sort of like CS Lewis when he strays into minutiae from the one big picture he knows so well. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
Avis d'utilisateur - Nathalie - Goodreads'I have taken life itself to be the primary phenomenon, and creativity, rather than the `conquest of nature,' as the ultimate criterion of man's biological and cultural success.' (Myth of the Machine, xi) Consulter l'avis complet
