Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure -- as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction -- is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Lewis Mumford, Insurgent: Introduction to Art and Technics
• Casey Nelson Blake (p. vii)
• Author's Note (p. xxxi)
• Art and the Symbol (p. 3)
• The Tool and the Object (p. 33)
• From Handicraft to Machine Art (p. 59)
• Standardization, Reproduction, and Choice (p. 85)
• Symbol and Function in Architecture (p. 111)
• Art, Technics, and Cultural Integration (p. 136)