The Story of Utopias : Mumford, Lewis. txt
Idioma: Español Series Compass books, C112New York : Dodo Press, 1962Descripción: 213 p. ill. ; 20 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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Introduction by Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ph.D. iv --
Chapter One: How the will to utopia causes them to live I two worlds, and how, therefore, we re read the Story of utopia the other half of the Story of Mankind 1 --
Chapter Two How the Greeks lived in a New World, and utopia seemed just around the corner. How Plato in the Republic is chiefly concerned with what will hold the ideal city together 13 --
Chapter Three How something happened to utopia between Plato and Sir Thomas More; and how utopia was discovered again, along with the New World 34 --
Chapter Four How the new Humanism of the Renaissance brings is within sight of Christianpolis ; and how we have for the first time a glimpse of a modern utopia 50 --
Chapter Five How Bacon and Campanella, who have a great reputation as utopians, are little better than echoes of the men who went before them 65 --
Chapter Six How something happened in the eighteenth century which made men furiously to think, and how a whole group of utopias sprang out of the upturned soil of industrialism 70 --
Chapter Seven How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of lands; and what sort of communities these land animals projected 83 --
Chapter Eight How Etienne Cabet dreamed of a new Napoleon called Icar, and a new France called Icaria; and how this utopia, with that which Edward Bellamy shows us looking Backward, gives us a hint of what machinery might bring us to if the industrial organization were nationalized 95 --
Chapter Nine How William Morris and W.H. Hudson renew the classic tradition of utopias; and hos, finally, Mr. H.G. Wells sums up and clarifies the utopias of the past, and brings then into contact with the world of the present 110 --
Chapter Ten How the Country Hose and Coketown became the utopias of the modern age ; and how they made the world over their image 123 --
Chapter Eleven How we reckon up accounts with the one sided utopias of the partisans 155 --
Chapter Twelve How the half worlds must go, and how eutopia may come ; and what we need before we can build Jerusalem in any green and pleasant land 176 --
Bibliography 208 --
The Story of Utopias is Lewis Mumford's first book and is an engaging exploration of the development of the concept of Utopia, by one of the foremost historian and social theorists of the 20th century. Mumford begins with a survey of the major utopias, some well-known, others less so. His survey takes a look at Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Andreæ's Christanopolis, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun, Fourier's Phalanxes, Cabet's Icaria, Bellamy's Looking Backward, Morris' News from Nowhere, and finally H.G. Wells' utopian fiction. In the final portion of the book Mumford explores the prospects for Utopia and relates it to the realities of urban planning. The Story of Utopias is a great introduction to this fascinating subject --
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Lewis Mumford has been referred to as one of the twentieth century's most influential "public intellectuals." A thinker and writer who denied the narrowness of academic speciality, Mumford embraced a cultural analysis that integrated technology, the natural environment, the urban environment, the individual, and the community. Although he lacked a formal university degree, Mumford wrote more than 30 books and 1,000 essays and reviews, which established his "organic" analysis of modern culture. His work defined the interdisciplinary studies movement, especially American studies; urban studies and city planning; architectural history; history of technology; and, most important in the present context, the interaction of science, technology, and society.Mumford was the editor of Dial, the most distinguished literary magazine of its era, and in 1920 he served as editor of Sociological Review in London and was strongly influenced by Sir Patrick Geddes, the Scottish botanist, sociologist, and town planner. In 1923, Mumford became a charter member of the Regional Planning Association of America, an experimental group that studied city problems from a regional as well as an ecological point of view. Mumford's well-known principle of "organicism" (the exploration of a cultural complex, where values, technology, individual personality, and the objective environment complement each other and together could build a world of fulfillment and beauty) was discussed in all of his work, spanning a career of nearly 70 years.
Mumford's first book, The Story of Utopias (1922), introduces reliance on history to understand the present as well as to plan for the future. His books on architectural history and his works in urban studies established Mumford's reputation as the leading American critic of architecture and city planning. Each book views and analyzes the city, or built environment, in the context of form, function, and purpose within the larger culture. Mumford's books are focused on technology's role in civilization, especially "the machine" and "megatechnics." As a result, they have provided formative direction and structure to science, technology, and society studies and have established Mumford's stature as one of the foremost social critics of the twentieth century.
Mumford's most profound and important analysis of technology (and the work that most directly influenced interdisciplinary technology-society studies) is the two-volume The Myth of the Machine:Volume 1, Technics and Human Development (1967), and Volume 2, The Pentagon of Power (1970). It was written following World War II (during which Mumford lost his son) after the deployment of atomic weapons by Russia and the United States, and during the arms race. This major work reflects a noticeable reinterpretation of the role of technology and a deep pessimism regarding "megatechnics," a metaphor Mumford uses for intrusive, all-encompassing systems of control and oppressive order. He views the military-industrial complex (the most horrendous "megamachine") as destroyer of the emotive and organic aspects of life. Mumford argues against the loss of personal autonomy and the organic world by electricity-based computer systems.
Mumford died on January 26, 1990.
(Bowker Author Biography)