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16 ratings, 4.00 average rating, 2 reviews
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published
September 29th 1971
(first published 1967)
by Harvest/HBJ Book
binding
Paperback, 352 pages
isbn
0156623412
(isbn13: 9780156623414)
description
Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of s...more
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'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)
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A bit of an over-reach from his usual solid perspective. Sort of like C. S. Lewis when he strays into minutiae from the one big picture he knows so well.
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