Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

Works

Books

• The Story of Utopias, 1922. (English)
  • Η ιστορία των ουτοπιών, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 1998. [1] (Greek)
  • Povijest utopija, trans. Paulina Tomic, Zagreb: Jesenski i Turk, 2008. (Croatian)
  • Historia de las utopías, Pepitas de calabaza, 2013. (Spanish)
  • Storia dell’utopia, Feltrinelli, 2017. (Italian)

• Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924. (English)

• The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1926. (English)

• Herman Melville, New York: The Literary Guild of America, 1929. (English)

• The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1931. (English)

• Technics and Civilization, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1934. (English)
  • Tecnica y civilizacion, trans. Aznar de Acevedo, Alianza, 1971; 1992. (Spanish)

• The Culture of Cities, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1938.

• Men Must Act, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1939. (English)

• Faith for Living, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1940. (English)

• The South in Architecture, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1941. (English)

• The Condition of Man, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944. (English)

• City Development: Studies in Disintegration and Renewal, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1945. (English)

• Values for Survival: Essays, Addresses, and Letters on Politics and Education, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1946. (English)

• Green Memories: The Story of Geddes, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1947. (English)

• The Conduct of Life, New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1951. (English)

• Art and Technics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. (English)
  • Τέχνη και τεχνική, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 1997. (Greek)
  • Arte e tecnica, Jouvence, 2022. (Italian)

• The Transformations of Man, 1957; repr., Routledge, 2022. [2] (English)
  • Οι μεταμορφώσεις του ανθρώπου, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, 1998, 224 pp. (Greek)
  • Le trasformazioni dell’uomo, Mimesis, 2021. (Italian)

• The City in History, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1961. (English)
  • A cidade na história: Suas origens, transformações e perspectivas, Martins Fontes, 2004. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • 城市发展史: 起源, 演变和前景, 中国建筑工业出版社, 2005. (Chinese)
  • Tarih Boyunca Kent - Kökenleri Geçirdiği Dönüşümler ve Geleceği, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2007. (Turkish)
  • La ciudad en la historia: sus orígenes, transformaciones y perspectivas, 2014. (Spanish)

• The Myth of the Machine, Volume I: Technics and Human Development, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1967. (English)
  • Mythos der Maschine. Kultur, Technik und Macht, trans. Liesl Nürenberger and Arpad Hälbig, Fischer Alternativ, 1977. Translation of both volumes. (German)
  • Mif mashiny: tekhnika i razvitie chelovechestva [Миф машины: техника и развитие человечества], trans. T. Azarkovich and B. Skuratov, Moscow: Logos, 2001, 408 pp. (Russian)
  • Ο μύθος της μηχανής: Τεχνική και ανάπτυξη του ανθρώπου, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 2005. [3] (Greek)
  • El mito de la máquina. Técnica y evolucion humana, trans. Arcadio Rigodón, Logroño: Pepitas, 2010, 552 pp. (Spanish)

• The Myth of the Machine, Volume II: The Pentagon of Power, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1970. (English)
  • Ο μύθος της μηχανής: Το πεντάγωνο της ισχύος, trans. Βασίλης Τομανάς, Νησίδες, 2005. [4] (Greek)
  • Pentagon moći: Mit o mašini 2, trans. Nikica Petrak, Zagreb: GZH, 1986; Belgrade: anarhija, 2009. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • El mito de la máquina. El pentágono del poder, trans. Javier Rodríguez Hidalgo, Logroño: Pepitas, 2011, 800 pp. (Spanish)

• Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford, New York: Dial Press, 1982, 500 pp.

Collected writings

• The Lewis Mumford Reader, ed. Donald L. Miller, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. (English)

• Mumford on Modern Art in The 1930s, ed. Robert Wojtowicz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. (English)

Selected articles

• "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics", Technology and Culture 5:1 (Winter 1964), pp 1-8. (English)
• More

Links

• Mumford on the City II, Cars or People, video, 1963.
• Biography by Eugene Halton
• Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany, *1988.
• Lewis Mumford at Wikipedia