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New Profession, Old Order - Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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New Profession, Old Order - Engineers and German Society, 1815-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between
modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an
explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in
transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional
power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological
accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand,
engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality,
specialization, practical knowledge, and entrepreneurial capitalism
- forces antiasthetical to the quasi-aristocratic world of Bildung
and bureaucracy that was the life blood of the preindustrial social
hierarchy. On the other hand, it was this latter universe in which
engineers had to survive and by whose standards they were judged
for membership in the educated middle class or for access to
prestigious careers. The result was an orientation that combined
the old and the new in ways that were at once uniquely German and
paradigmatic for modern industrial society.
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