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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... obscure. What possible bearing can the urge to idealize a. * A “cultural symbol" is an image that conveys a special meaning (thought and feeling) to a large number of those who share the culture. 4 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
... obscure. What possible bearing can the urge to idealize a. * A “cultural symbol" is an image that conveys a special meaning (thought and feeling) to a large number of those who share the culture. 4 THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
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... feeling. It is widely diffused in our culture, insinuating itself into many kinds of behavior. An obvious example is the current “flight from the city.” An inchoate longing for a more “natural” environment enters into the contemptuous ...
... feeling. It is widely diffused in our culture, insinuating itself into many kinds of behavior. An obvious example is the current “flight from the city.” An inchoate longing for a more “natural” environment enters into the contemptuous ...
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... feeling we often attach to the unspoiled landscape as an illustration of our chronic yearning to enjoy “freedom from the grip of the external world.” To Freud this impulse is the very epitome of fantasy-making: The creation of the ...
... feeling we often attach to the unspoiled landscape as an illustration of our chronic yearning to enjoy “freedom from the grip of the external world.” To Freud this impulse is the very epitome of fantasy-making: The creation of the ...
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... feeling. If this more popular kind of pastoralism were the only kind evident in America today, we should have every reason to conclude that it is merely another of our many vehicles of escape from reality — one of those collective ...
... feeling. If this more popular kind of pastoralism were the only kind evident in America today, we should have every reason to conclude that it is merely another of our many vehicles of escape from reality — one of those collective ...
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... feels about his situation. 2 On the morning of July 27, 1844, Nathaniel 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 ...
... feels about his situation. 2 On the morning of July 27, 1844, Nathaniel 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 ...
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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