Disappearing through the skylight : culture and technology in the twentieth century / O.B. Hardison

Public ISBD Titre : Disappearing through the skylight : culture and technology in the twentieth century Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : O.B. Hardison, Auteur Editeur : Viking Année de publication : 1989 Importance : 389 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-670-82505-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : SCIENCES SOCIALES Mots-clés : VINGTIEME SIECLE  ARCHITECTURE  HISTOIRE  LANGAGE  PENSEE  SCIENCE  EVOLUTION  HUMANITE Résumé : This book is about change in modern culture and it examines five basic and interrelated areas : nature, history, language, art and human evolution – reviewing the ways in which central concepts in each area have changed since the beginning of the present century. Because the changes have been fundamental, the concepts and even the vocabularies and images in which the concepts tend to be framed-no longer seem to objectify a real world. It is as though progress were making the real world invisible. No examination of modern culture can exclude the influence of science and technology and one that understand their influence would be irresponsible. The writer devoted much attention to both in the pages that follow and if only for that reason, he states at the outset that this is not a technical book. His point of view is that of an interested and involved citizen of modern culture, not that of a scientist or historian of science or technology. He tries to inform himself on major developments in areas he treted. This book is not, however, an attempt to explain or popularize this or that development in science or technology. It is concerned with values rather than processes or products,and is intended for all those readers, nonscientists and scientists alike who are interested in understanding the culture we inhabit. Modern culture is often said to be fragmented and the growth of knowledge produces branchings and subbranchings of specialities in the same way that evolution produces branchings and subbranchings of species. As the branchings multiply, they seem to isolate people in procedures and languages that are unintelligible to people in other specialities. The most familiar version of this critique is C.P. Snow’s argument that progress has split modern culture in half so that there are two cultures –one scientific and the other nonscientific-and there is little communication between them. This book continues an analysis begun with Entering the maze : identity and change in modern culture. Its ideas were first sketched out in as series of lectures on cultural change. Since then the author continues to extend and deepen his thinking and important developments have continued to occur in all of the areas treated. Numéro du document : A 10434/CEH 257 Niveau Bibliographique : 1 Bull1 (Theme principale) : CULTURES ET HUMANITES Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : HISTOIRE ET DISCIPLINES CONJOINTES Disappearing through the skylight : culture and technology in the twentieth century [texte imprimé] / O.B. Hardison, Auteur . - Viking, 1989 . - 389 p. ISBN : 978-0-670-82505-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : SCIENCES SOCIALES Mots-clés : VINGTIEME SIECLE  ARCHITECTURE  HISTOIRE  LANGAGE  PENSEE  SCIENCE  EVOLUTION  HUMANITE Résumé : This book is about change in modern culture and it examines five basic and interrelated areas : nature, history, language, art and human evolution – reviewing the ways in which central concepts in each area have changed since the beginning of the present century. Because the changes have been fundamental, the concepts and even the vocabularies and images in which the concepts tend to be framed-no longer seem to objectify a real world. It is as though progress were making the real world invisible. No examination of modern culture can exclude the influence of science and technology and one that understand their influence would be irresponsible. The writer devoted much attention to both in the pages that follow and if only for that reason, he states at the outset that this is not a technical book. His point of view is that of an interested and involved citizen of modern culture, not that of a scientist or historian of science or technology. He tries to inform himself on major developments in areas he treted. This book is not, however, an attempt to explain or popularize this or that development in science or technology. It is concerned with values rather than processes or products,and is intended for all those readers, nonscientists and scientists alike who are interested in understanding the culture we inhabit. Modern culture is often said to be fragmented and the growth of knowledge produces branchings and subbranchings of specialities in the same way that evolution produces branchings and subbranchings of species. As the branchings multiply, they seem to isolate people in procedures and languages that are unintelligible to people in other specialities. The most familiar version of this critique is C.P. Snow’s argument that progress has split modern culture in half so that there are two cultures –one scientific and the other nonscientific-and there is little communication between them. This book continues an analysis begun with Entering the maze : identity and change in modern culture. Its ideas were first sketched out in as series of lectures on cultural change. Since then the author continues to extend and deepen his thinking and important developments have continued to occur in all of the areas treated. Numéro du document : A 10434/CEH 257 Niveau Bibliographique : 1 Bull1 (Theme principale) : CULTURES ET HUMANITES Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : HISTOIRE ET DISCIPLINES CONJOINTES

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