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Romantic Machine

Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Autor: John Tresch
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: The University of Chicago Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds...

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Autor
John Tresch
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2012
Pagini
472
EAN
9780226812205
ISBN
0226812200
Enbook ID
02076253
Editura
The University of Chicago Press
Greutate
862
Dimensiuni
235 x 158 x 35

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In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, "The Romantic Machine" is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.

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