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The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
John Tresch
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Description for The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
Paperback. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, early photography, and mass-scale printing, the author looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. Num Pages: 472 pages, 46 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and ... Read more
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226214801
SKU
V9780226214801
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About John Tresch
John Tresch is associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
"A fascinating book and a must for anyone seeking to get to grips with the complex, knotty roots of modernity." (Metascience) "Illuminating a spectrum of heterodox approaches grouped under the umbrella term 'mechanical romanticism,' Tresch makes an insistent and compelling case for why the current cultural impasse between science- and creative-types is far from inevitable. In this vision, sound science ... Read more