作者:
John Tresch 出版社: University Of Chicago Press 副标题: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon 出版年: 2012-6-5 页数: 472 定价: USD 52.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226812205
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 trig...
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 how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch 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. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, "The Romantic Machine" is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.
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John Tresch is associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Humboldt did not perceive the machines he used to make readings of natural phenomena as the antithesis of the human, organic, or natural; the best way to know the world was to multiply mediations and observers, not to eliminate them. The kind of “freedom” pursued in the Humboldtian regime of observatory science, and the version of “objectivity” it realized, implied interdependence, shared labor, mediation, and community. (查看原文)
The dominant image of modern science has been exemplified by the classical machines which implies a stable, fixed and changeless nature and which endows knowledge with detached, impersonal and emotionless objectivity. The romantics are usually understood as...
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0 有用 小红帽 2013-11-03 04:00:50
not just about revisiting the 18th/19th cen divide, but much more.
1 有用 dow 2020-03-20 23:37:26
我怀疑历史上究竟有没有一个机械理性和浪漫主义泾渭分明的时刻（不知道作者对当代中国的工业党有何看法），所以这本书最大的亮点也许是写作策略，虽然导论的结尾又大谈“替代性现代性”😡 chaps. 6–8
0 有用 Prunus d 2020-02-12 13:24:33
case少了点，弯弯绕科技哲学的多了点……人认识世界的姿势还真是很不一样呐
1 有用 🌱 2022-03-03 09:08:24
体大思精之作。（同是讨论现代社会的生成期，贵邦大把的才俊却不会用准确明了的语言谈话。）
1 有用 fernweh_ 2022-07-02 22:00:29
从作为instrument工具/medium媒介的科技作为切口，对浪漫主义的科学维度进行更细腻深入的考察，浪漫主义对精密科学与主观情感之间巨大裂缝的弥合，正是通过作为人感官外在化的仪器实现，从启蒙的钟表机器到浪漫的电磁、气压、温度、引力，背后是整个时代对人与自由观念的演化
0 有用 spica 2024-03-23 00:34:15 美国
（后1/3是注释）
0 有用 Derridager 2023-03-15 09:19:54 美国
文笔极佳，文风“浪漫”。过去的未来不仅属于过去，还属于未来。我爱这种历史编纂观。但这本书的historicity值得商榷。
1 有用 fernweh_ 2022-07-02 22:00:29
从作为instrument工具/medium媒介的科技作为切口，对浪漫主义的科学维度进行更细腻深入的考察，浪漫主义对精密科学与主观情感之间巨大裂缝的弥合，正是通过作为人感官外在化的仪器实现，从启蒙的钟表机器到浪漫的电磁、气压、温度、引力，背后是整个时代对人与自由观念的演化
1 有用 🌱 2022-03-03 09:08:24
体大思精之作。（同是讨论现代社会的生成期，贵邦大把的才俊却不会用准确明了的语言谈话。）
1 有用 dow 2020-03-20 23:37:26
我怀疑历史上究竟有没有一个机械理性和浪漫主义泾渭分明的时刻（不知道作者对当代中国的工业党有何看法），所以这本书最大的亮点也许是写作策略，虽然导论的结尾又大谈“替代性现代性”😡 chaps. 6–8