Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - Owen - GoodreadsAn analysis well ahead of its time. Chapters 9 and 10 are particularly important. Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
User Review - 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 ... Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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. Read full review
Review: Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
User Review - 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) Read full review
