| Description |
ix, 522 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. New world horizons: Origins of the American mind -- Morning star: Emerson -- Golden day -- Melville: 'Moby Dick' -- Audubon: passionate naturalist -- Eakins: painter and moralist -- Brown decades -- Emerson's journals -- Prelude to the present -- pt. 2. Personality and history: Jesus: primacy of the person -- Augustine: salvation by retreat -- Aquinas: cathedrals and scholasticism -- Bacon: science as technology -- Kepler: space-explorer -- Loyola: the gentleman as saint -- Hume: nihilistic atomism -- Rousseau: insurgent romanticism -- Darwin: mythology and ecology -- Marx: dialectic of revolution -- Morris: polytechnic creativity -- Spengler: dithyramb to doom -- pt. 3. Myth of the machine: Drama of the machines -- Utopia, the city, and the machine -- First megamachine -- Mechanization of modern culture -- Technics and the future -- Standardization and choice -- Social consequences of atomic energy -- Leonardo's premonitions -- pt. 4. Miscarriages of civilization: Origins of war -- Uprising of Caliban -- Apology to Henry Adams -- American way of death -- Post-historic man -- Revolt of the demons -- pt. 5. Transformations of man: Animal into human -- Mindfulness of man -- Archaic man -- World culture -- Human prospect -- Opening future -- Flowering of plants and men. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern.
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Civilization, Modern. |
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Ensaio Norte Americano. |
| ISBN |
0151676801 |
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9780151676804 |
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