The Garden and the Machine
Variant relates to the idea of America as a vast uncivilized territory whose resources were waiting to be exploited . Nature was to be defeated , colonized, and turned into something useful. In contrast, the primitive variant relates to the idea of America as an unspoiled paradise where nature was identified with freedom, authenticity , spontaneity, and the opportunity to avoid civilization’s many social downsides. Between these opposites exists the pastoral variant , which relates to the idea of America as the place where the old dream of achieving harmony between man and nature could be realized. The ideal was neither the old European civilizations nor the wild nature but a “middle landscape” where the best of both worlds could be combined (Marx 1964).
The Garden and the Machine Variant relates to the idea of America as a vast uncivilized territory whose resources were waiting to be exploited . Nature was to be defeated , colonized, and turned into something useful. In contrast, the primitive variant relates to the idea of America as an unspoiled paradise where nature was identified with freedom, authenticity , spontaneity, and the opportunity to avoid civilization’s many social downsides. Between these opposites exists the pastoral variant , which relates to the idea of America as the place where the old dream of achieving harmony between man and nature could be realized. The ideal was neither the old European civilizations nor the wild nature but a “middle landscape” where the best of both worlds could be combined (Marx 1964).
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