num_pages: 495
description: This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon whichphilosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy).
language: English
title: Technics and Civilization
titlecomplete: Technics and Civilization
genres: Anthropology, Technology, History, Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, Society, Economics
ratings_count: 541
publisher: Harcourt