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A Short Biography of Lewis Mumford

Author Name:

Lewis Mumford

Born As:

Lewis Mumford

Other Names:

Lewis Mumford

Born:

19 Oct 1895

Died:

26 Jan 1990




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Social critic and historian                          
Selected Works:

The Story of Utopias - 1922.
Sticks and Stones - 1924.
The Golden Day - 1926.
Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision - 1929.
The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 - 1931.
The City - 1939, a film.
"Renewal of Life" series
Technics and Civilization - 1934.
The Culture of Cities - 1938.
The Condition of Man - 1944.
The Conduct of Life - 1951.
Art and Technics - 1952.
Values for Survival - 1946.
The Transformations of Man - 1956 New York: Harper and Row.
The City in History - 1961. often considered his most important work - Awarded the National Book Award.
The Highway and the City - 1963, essay collection.
The Myth of the Machine - 1967–1970, 2 volumes.
The Urban Prospect - 1968, essay collection.
My Work and Days: A Personal Chronicle - 1979.
Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford - 1982 New York: Dial Press.                          
                          
                          
Mumford believed that what defined humanit, what set human beings apart from other animals, was not primarily our use of tools - technology,  but our use of language - symbols.