Mumford Tate Eiseley Watchers in the Night by Gale H. Carrithers Jr HARDBACK

Mumford, Tate, EiseleyWatchers in the Night\nAuthor(s): Gale H. Carrithers Jr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807116500, 978-0807116500\nSynopsis\nThough of diverse backgrounds and training, Mumford, Tate, and Eisley shared remarkably concordant and convincing views of the state of twentieth-century American society. All three considered America to be benighted by a dominant myth - the \""\""myth of the machine,\""\"" in Mumford's phrase - that resulted in cultural degeneration. Through an examination of selected works of each critic, Carrithers explains how these writers both identified and fought against this myth.\n\nCarrithers asserts that Mumford, Tate, and Eisley in their essays revived prophecy as a mode of expression and as a means of appraising culture in a broad historical context. Like the biblical prophets, the three concerned themselves not so much with the future as with t.