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Author:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Title:

Interpretations and forecasts: 1922-1972; studies in literature, history, biography, technics, and contemporary society.

Publisher:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Copyright Date:

1973

Description:

ix, 522 p. 25 cm.

Subject:

Civilization, Modern.
Ensaio Norte Americano

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

pt. 5. The flowering of plants and men. The origins of the American mind -- Morning star: Emerson -- The golden day -- Melville: 'Moby Dick' -- Audubon: passionate naturalist -- Eakins: painter and moralist -- The Brown decades -- Emerson's journals -- Prelude to the present -- pt. 2. Personality and history: Jesus: primacy of the person -- Augustine: salvation by retreat -- Aquinas: cathedrals and scholasticism -- Bacon: science as technology -- Kepler: space-explorer -- Loyola: the gentleman as saint -- Hume: nihilistic atomism -- Rousseau: insurgent romanticism -- Darwin: mythology and ecology -- Marx: dialectic of revolution -- Morris: polytechnic creativity -- Spengler: dithyramb to doom -- pt. 3. Myth of the machine: Drama of the machines -- Utopia, the city, and the machine -- The first megamachine -- Mechanization of modern culture -- Technics and the future -- Standardization and choice -- Social consequences of atomic energy -- Leonardo's premonitions -- pt. 4. Miscarriages of civilization: The origins of war -- The uprising of Caliban -- Apology to Henry Adams -- The American way of death -- Post-historic man -- Revolt of the demons -- pt. 5. Transformations of man: Animal into human -- The mindfulness of man -- Archaic man -- World culture -- The human prospect -- The opening future -- The flowering of plants and men.

ISBN:

9780151676804
0151676801

LCCN:

72088793

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)