John Tresch

The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science And Technology After Napoleon

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ISBN 13:
9780226214801
author:
John Tresch
format:
Paperback
publisher:
University of Chicago Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2014
Pages:
468
Dimensions:
15.2 x 3 x 22.9 cm
Genre:
History, Europe, France
Condition:
New
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£31.74

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The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon By John Tresch In the years following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers sought to recover from the upheavals of the French Revolution. They challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics, questioning the rise of machines and seeking a return to an earlier organic unity. This led to the emergence of romanticism, an artistic and philosophical movement that was deeply intertwined with science. Tresch explores how celebrated technologies such as steam engines, early photography, and mass-scale printing were developed in conjunction with new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association. He examines how these innovations fueled diverse developments in literature, astronomy, opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. This book offers a fresh perspective on the scientific and cultural landscape of early nineteenth-century France, revealing how thinkers like Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism.

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