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Condition of Man by Mumford Lewis (1973, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156215500

ISBN-139780156215503

eBay Product ID (ePID)837042

Product Key Features

Number of Pages467 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCondition of Man

Publication Year1973

SubjectCivilization, General

FeaturesReprint

TypeNot Available

AuthorMumford Lewis

Subject AreaRéférence, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight15.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN72-091160

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal901.9

Edition DescriptionReprint

Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisThis is the third volume in Lewis Mumford's superb "Renewal of Life" series, which also contains Technics and Civilazation, The Culture of Cities, and The Conduct of Life. The present book explores the historic development of the personality and the community. Ranging from ancient Greece to our own century, the author takes Western man over the ground of his past, singles out events that have done him injury, and reveals his latent sources of creative action, too long thrust aside in an age that depends for salvation on the machine. Since the original publication of this book, Lewis Mumford observes in his new Preface, his analysis of the weaknesses of modern civilization has been confirmed: the condition of man has worsened; "What were once only local demoralizations or disasters now threaten to turn into planetary calamities." Despite this bleak prospect, the author shuns the philosophies of anti-life made fashionable by the nihilists, the existentialists, and the "brutalists, " and, as in all his work, stresses instead an essentially hopeful view of man's nature and the possibilities for human development., A study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.

LC Classification NumberCB53.M8 1973