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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... Civilization. 2. Nature—Social aspects—United States. 3. Technology—Social aspects—United States. I. Title. E169.1 M35 2000 973–dc21 99-34697 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents I Sleepy ...
... Civilization. 2. Nature—Social aspects—United States. 3. Technology—Social aspects—United States. I. Title. E169.1 M35 2000 973–dc21 99-34697 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents I Sleepy ...
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... Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). He admits that he is puzzled by what he calls the “amazing” tendency of presumably civilized men to idealize simple and often primitive conditions of life. What puzzles him most is the ...
... Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). He admits that he is puzzled by what he calls the “amazing” tendency of presumably civilized men to idealize simple and often primitive conditions of life. What puzzles him most is the ...
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... civilization?” “ Freud's answer — an avowedly speculative one — is that such attitudes are the product of profound, long-standing discontent. He interprets them as signs of widespread frustration and repression. Although he assumes that ...
... civilization?” “ Freud's answer — an avowedly speculative one — is that such attitudes are the product of profound, long-standing discontent. He interprets them as signs of widespread frustration and repression. Although he assumes that ...
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... civilization — the familiar impulse to withdraw from the city, locus of power and politics, into nature. The difference is that the primitivist hero keeps going, as it were, so that eventually he locates value as far as possible, in ...
... civilization — the familiar impulse to withdraw from the city, locus of power and politics, into nature. The difference is that the primitivist hero keeps going, as it were, so that eventually he locates value as far as possible, in ...
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... civilization and nature.” What is most impressive, when we read the first eclogue with Hawthorne's notes in mind, is the similarity of the root conflict and of the over-all pattern of thought and emotion. By his presence alone Meliboeus ...
... civilization and nature.” What is most impressive, when we read the first eclogue with Hawthorne's notes in mind, is the similarity of the root conflict and of the over-all pattern of thought and emotion. By his presence alone Meliboeus ...
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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