title: Representations of the Intellectual:  The 1993 Reith Lectures
author:  Edward W. Said 
description: "Bracing and heartfelt. . . . A fiercely assertive description of the intellectual as an oppositional figure." --<i>The New Yorker <br /><br /></i>"Edward Said is the most distinguished cultural critic now writing in America." --Cornel West<br /><br />"Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist. . . . He challenges and stimulated our thinking in every area." --<i>Washington Post Book World</i>
zlib_text: PHILURA
  GOULD
  BALDWIN
  MEMORIAL
  LIBRARY
  
  Art and Technics
  bampton lectures in America
  Number 4
  DELIVERED AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1951
  
  N 74*5
  -M88
  Mumfordi
  Lewis.
  1BVS
  Art
  and
  technics.
  Art and Technics
  LEWIS MUMFORD
  NEW
  YORK
  1952
  COLUMBIA
  UNIVERSITY
  PRESS
  LIBhAKY
  BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE
  BEREA, OHIO
  
  COPYRIGHT 1952 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK
  MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  Except for the inevitable omission of spontaneous in-
  terpolations, these lectures now come forth in the form
  they were originally delivered. They were written for
  the speaking voice, and though this form would prove
  trying, no doubt, in a lengthier discourse,
  it seemed to
  me that in such brief compass as this book, the lectures
  would
  lose more than they would gain by being put
  into the more
  incisive style
  of written
  prose.
  I have
  made some
  slight omissions and amplifications
  in the
  lecture on architecture; but these cause no change of
  meaning. To those who were present at the lectures, I
  take th