The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaOxford University Press, 24.02.2000 - 430 Seiten For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society. This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies. |
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... Hawthorne sat down in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, to await (as he put it) “such little events as may happen.” His purpose, so far as we can tell, was chiefly literary. Though he had no reason to believe that anything ...
... Hawthorne sat down in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, to await (as he put it) “such little events as may happen.” His purpose, so far as we can tell, was chiefly literary. Though he had no reason to believe that anything ...
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... Hawthorne filled eight pages of his notebook on this occasion. What he wrote is not a finished piece of work and yet, surprisingly enough, neither is it a haphazard series of jottings. One incident dominates the rest of his impressions ...
... Hawthorne filled eight pages of his notebook on this occasion. What he wrote is not a finished piece of work and yet, surprisingly enough, neither is it a haphazard series of jottings. One incident dominates the rest of his impressions ...
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... Hawthorne is satisfied to set down unadorned sense impressions, and especially sounds—sounds made by birds, squirrels, insects, and moving leaves. But then, after a time, the scope of his observations widens. Another kind of sound comes ...
... Hawthorne is satisfied to set down unadorned sense impressions, and especially sounds—sounds made by birds, squirrels, insects, and moving leaves. But then, after a time, the scope of his observations widens. Another kind of sound comes ...
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... Hawthorne continues his observations. An ant colony catches his eye. Possibly, he muses, it is the very model of the community which the Fourierites and others are pursuing in their stumbling way. Then, “like a malevolent genius,” he ...
... Hawthorne continues his observations. An ant colony catches his eye. Possibly, he muses, it is the very model of the community which the Fourierites and others are pursuing in their stumbling way. Then, “like a malevolent genius,” he ...
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... Hawthorne's notes mark the shaping (on a microscopic scale to be sure) of a metaphoric design which recurs everywhere in our literature. They are a paradigm of the second kind of pastoralism mentioned at the outset. By looking closely ...
... Hawthorne's notes mark the shaping (on a microscopic scale to be sure) of a metaphoric design which recurs everywhere in our literature. They are a paradigm of the second kind of pastoralism mentioned at the outset. By looking closely ...
Inhalt
3 | |
34 | |
The Garden | 73 |
The Machine | 145 |
Two Kingdoms of Force | 227 |
Epilogue The Garden of Ashes | 354 |
AFTERWORD | 367 |
NOTES | 387 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 407 |
INDEX | 409 |
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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