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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... called “original.” One suspects indeed that if we had access to all the notebooks kept by aspiring American writers of the 1840's we would find this “little event” recorded again and again. Two years earlier, for example, one of ...
... called “original.” One suspects indeed that if we had access to all the notebooks kept by aspiring American writers of the 1840's we would find this “little event” recorded again and again. Two years earlier, for example, one of ...
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... called the romantic movement. Just how important they were it is difficult to say. If we regard the movement (to use Whitehead's acute phrase) as “a protest on behalf of the organic view of nature,” then the contrast between the machine ...
... called the romantic movement. Just how important they were it is difficult to say. If we regard the movement (to use Whitehead's acute phrase) as “a protest on behalf of the organic view of nature,” then the contrast between the machine ...
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... called “The Dispossessed,” there was a specific action of the Roman government: the expropriation of a number of small landholders (including the poet himself) so that military veterans might be rewarded with the seized land. This ...
... called “The Dispossessed,” there was a specific action of the Roman government: the expropriation of a number of small landholders (including the poet himself) so that military veterans might be rewarded with the seized land. This ...
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... called pastorals— at least those substantial enough to retain our interest— do not finally permit us to come away with anything like the simple, affirmative attitude we adopt toward pleasing rural scenery. In one way or another, if only ...
... called pastorals— at least those substantial enough to retain our interest— do not finally permit us to come away with anything like the simple, affirmative attitude we adopt toward pleasing rural scenery. In one way or another, if only ...
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... called history. Although Hawthorne's account includes an element of representation — he draws upon actual objects and events—his chief concern is the landscape of the psyche. The inner, not the outer world, is what interests him most as ...
... called history. Although Hawthorne's account includes an element of representation — he draws upon actual objects and events—his chief concern is the landscape of the psyche. The inner, not the outer world, is what interests him most as ...
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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