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What is technology? When we grapple with this question, we try to understand something fundamental about humanity, given that technical objects and practices inform every aspect of our lives.
The focus in this study on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany underscores a pivotal moment in technology’s conceptual history and offers a fresh perspective. The translations and interpretive essays in this volume show how those writers engaged with technology reflected on its history and innovations even as they engaged in more speculative thinking.
Their work, definitive of a historical epoch, can still speak to us today.
The focus in this study on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany underscores a pivotal moment in technology’s conceptual history and offers a fresh perspective. The translations and interpretive essays in this volume show how those writers engaged with technology reflected on its history and innovations even as they engaged in more speculative thinking.
Their work, definitive of a historical epoch, can still speak to us today.
Price: $147.00
Pages: 268
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Technology and Change in History
Publication Date:
12 June 2025
ISBN: 9789004549531
Format: Hardcover
Jocelyn Holland is Professor of Comparative Literature at Caltech. Her book-length publications include German Romanticism and Science (Routledge, 2009); Key Texts by Johann Wilhelm Ritter on the Science and Art of Nature (Brill, 2010); and The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800 (Bloomsbury, 2019).