Romantic Machine

Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Autor: John Tresch

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

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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

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

472

EAN

9780226214801

ISBN

022621480X

Enbook ID

04544509

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

646

Rozměry

229 x 155 x 28

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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.

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