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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... nature,” that is the psychic root of all pastoralism — genuine and spurious. That such desires are not peculiar to Americans goes without saying; but our experience as a nation unquestionably has invested them with peculiar intensity ...
... nature,” that is the psychic root of all pastoralism — genuine and spurious. That such desires are not peculiar to Americans goes without saying; but our experience as a nation unquestionably has invested them with peculiar intensity ...
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... Nature, filled with bread stuff. Then, in minute detail, he records what he sees and hears close by. “Observe the pathway,” he writes, “it is strewn over with little bits of dry twigs and decayed branches, and the sear and brown oak ...
... Nature, filled with bread stuff. Then, in minute detail, he records what he sees and hears close by. “Observe the pathway,” he writes, “it is strewn over with little bits of dry twigs and decayed branches, and the sear and brown oak ...
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... nature, and now and then permitting his imagination a brief flight. Along the path, for example, he notices that “sunshine glimmers through shadow, and shadow effaces sunshine, imaging that pleasant mood of mind where gaiety and ...
... nature, and now and then permitting his imagination a brief flight. Along the path, for example, he notices that “sunshine glimmers through shadow, and shadow effaces sunshine, imaging that pleasant mood of mind where gaiety and ...
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... nature poets” of the previous century. In 1844, as it happens, Wordsworth wrote a sonnet protesting against the building of a railroad through the lake country. It begins: “Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault ...
... nature poets” of the previous century. In 1844, as it happens, Wordsworth wrote a sonnet protesting against the building of a railroad through the lake country. It begins: “Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault ...
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... nature,” then the contrast between the machine and the landscape would seem to embody its very essence.” And yet it is misleading to think of the basic design of Hawthorne's notes as a product of modern romanticism. When we strip away ...
... nature,” then the contrast between the machine and the landscape would seem to embody its very essence.” And yet it is misleading to think of the basic design of Hawthorne's notes as a product of modern romanticism. When we strip away ...
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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