Romantic Machine

Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Автор: John Tresch

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: 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...

Информация за книгата

Автор

John Tresch

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

472

EAN

9780226214801

ISBN

022621480X

Enbook ID

04544509

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

646

Размери

229 x 155 x 28

Пълно описание

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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