Lewis Mumford - architectural critic, theorist of technology, urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer, and philosopher - was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with "technics." Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text prov...(展开全部)

刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford，1895-1990年），是《日晷》杂志的副总编辑，社会学评论(伦敦)的代理主编以及美国文学年报的几位主编之一。他于1935年至1937年担任纽约市高等教育董事会董事，1938年至1944年担任美国教育理事会理事。芒福德先生还 是美国哲学学会会员和美国艺术与科学院院士。

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social resu...(展开全部)

刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford，1895-1990年），是《日晷》杂志的副总编辑，社会学评论(伦敦)的代理主编以及美国文学年报的几位主编之一。他于1935年至1937年担任纽约市高等教育董事会董事，1938年至1944年担任美国教育理事会理事。芒福德先生还 是美国哲学学会会员和美国艺术与科学院院士。

"Disorientation" is the first publication in English of the second volume of "Technics and Time," in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.The author's broad intent is to respond to Western philosophy's historical exclusion of...(展开全部)

What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessmen...(展开全部)

What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessmen...(展开全部)

Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellec...(展开全部)

'An important work on an involved subject,, illustrated with more than 250 telling black-and-white pictures and written with admirable thoroughness and clarity... Now at last we have a full,, standard work... a mine of scholarly and stimulating information which has been needed for a long time' - The Times Literary Supplement

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability are important aspects of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct c...(展开全部)