The Condition of Man

by Lewis Mumford

Book Overview

This is the third volume in Lewis Mumford's superb "Renewal of Life" series, which also contains Technics and Civilazation, The Culture of Cities, and The Conduct of Life. The present book explores the historic development of the personality and the community. Ranging from ancient Greece to our own century, the author takes Western man over the ground of his past, singles out events that have done him injury, and reveals his latent sources of creative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156215500
• ISBN13: 9780156215503
• Release Date: March 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

In the beginning...

Mumford endeavors to trace the development of civilization in this book, and will astound with well-rounded, informative summations of the construction of culture dating back to the 6th century BC. Anyone curious about parallels between the fall of the Greek and Roman empires and the fall of our own culture should read this book.