Main entry:

Tresch, John, 1972- author.

Title & Author:

The romantic machine : utopian science and technology after Napoleon / John Tresch.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]

Description:

xvii, 449 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-430) and index.
Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- The Devil's Opera: Fantastic Physiospiritualism -- Monsters, Machine-Men, Magicians: The Automaton in the Garden -- ENGINEERS OF ARTIFICIAL PARADISES -- Saint-Simonian Engines: Love and Conversions -- Leroux's Pianotype: The Organogenesis of Humanity -- Comte's Calendar: From Infinite Universe to Closed World -- Conclusion: Afterlives of the Romantic Machine.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780226812205 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226812200 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226214801 (paperback)
022621480X (paperback)

Subject:

Technology Social aspects France History 19th century.
Utopias France History 19th century.
Machinery Social aspects France History 19th century.
Science Social aspects France History 19th century.
Technology Philosophy History 19th century.
Romanticism France.
Utopies France Histoire 19e siècle.
Machines Aspect social France Histoire 19e siècle.
Sciences Aspect social France Histoire 19e siècle.
Technologie Philosophie Histoire 19e siècle.
Romantisme France.
Romanticism.
Science Social aspects.
Technology Philosophy.
Technology Social aspects.
Utopias.
Maschine
Naturwissenschaften
Technik
Rezeption
Wissenschaftskultur
France History February Revolution, 1848.
France Histoire 1848 (Révolution de février)
France.
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282405
Call No.: BIB 219909
Status: Available