Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (The Wiles Lectures)

Nef, John U.

Cambridge University Press（2009/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521135849
• DDC分類 303.483

Full Description

Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes and interests as much as in terms of a developing economy and a growing technology. The origins of industrialism have to be sought in history as a whole. Man's concern for truth, goodness and beauty has done as much to produce the modern world as economic institutions and natural resources. Professor Nef has it in mind that, for a historian, the importance of human nature cannot be made subservient to that of productivity statistics; in this book he portrays the birth and development of our industrial civilisation in a clearer light. The book is developed from the second series of Wiles lectures given at Queen's University, Belfast and is a successor to Man on his Past by Herbert Butterfield.

Contents

Preface; 1. Movements of the mind; 2. The Genesis of industrialism; 3. The origin of civilisation; 4. The spiritual basis of civilisation; 5. The aesthetic basis of civilisation; 6. Civilisation and industrialism; Index.