For Love of the Automobile
Looking Back into the History of Our Desires
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1992
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-06878-0 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-06878-0 (ISBN)
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Presents a cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany. This work starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation.
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the automobile. A 'history of our desires' for speed, wealth, violence, glamour, progress, and power--as refracted through images of the automobile - it is at once fascinating and provocative. Sachs recounts the development of the automobile industry and the impact on German society of the marketing and promotion of the motor car. As cars became more affordable and more common after World War II, advertisers fanned the competition for status, refining their techniques as ownership became ever more widespread.
Sachs concludes by demonstrating that the triumphal procession of private motorization has in fact become an intrusion. The grand dreams once attached to the automobile have aged. Sachs appeals for the cultivation of new dreams born of the futility of the old ones, dreams of 'a society liberated from progress', in which location, distance, and speed are reconceived in more appropriately humane dimensions.
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the automobile. A 'history of our desires' for speed, wealth, violence, glamour, progress, and power--as refracted through images of the automobile - it is at once fascinating and provocative. Sachs recounts the development of the automobile industry and the impact on German society of the marketing and promotion of the motor car. As cars became more affordable and more common after World War II, advertisers fanned the competition for status, refining their techniques as ownership became ever more widespread.
Sachs concludes by demonstrating that the triumphal procession of private motorization has in fact become an intrusion. The grand dreams once attached to the automobile have aged. Sachs appeals for the cultivation of new dreams born of the futility of the old ones, dreams of 'a society liberated from progress', in which location, distance, and speed are reconceived in more appropriately humane dimensions.
Wolfgang Sachs is a Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen, Germany. Don Reneau is a writer and translator who lives in Berkeley, California.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1992 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Don Reneau |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-06878-5 / 0520068785 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-06878-0 / 9780520068780 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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