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UNINA9910797325803321 |
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Griffiths Paul J. |
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Decreation : the last things of all creatures / / Paul J. Griffiths |
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Waco : , : Baylor University Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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1-4813-0346-5 |
1-4813-0231-0 |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-384) and index. |
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Cover; Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraphs; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. The Grammar of the Last Things; 1 Lexicon ; 2 Last Things Defined ; 3 Annihilation: The First Last Thing; 4 Simple Stasis: The Second Last Thing; 5 Repetitive Stasis: The Third Last Thing; 6 Epektasy: Denying Last Things; 7 Iconicity: Representing Last Things; Part II. Doctrine about Last Things; 8 Theology and Last Things ; 9 Doctrine and Last Things; 10 The Doctrinal Schema; 11 The Narrative Arc; 12 Patterns of Thought; Part III. Timespace; 13 The LORD's Eternity |
14 The Chronic Temporality of Creatures15 Time Damaged: Metronome; 16 Time Healed: Liturgy, Systole, Fold; Part IV. Angels; 17 Thinking about Angels; 18 What Angels Are; 19 Angelic Fall; 20 Angelic Last Things; Part V: Humans; 21 Human Flesh; 22 The Discarnate Intermediate State; 23 Human Last Things (1): Annihilation; 24 Human Last Things (2): Heaven; 25 Hell Reconstrued; 26 The Church's Last Thing; Part VI. Plants, Animals, Inanimate Creatures; 27 Plants and Animals; 28 The Last Things of Plants and Animals; 29 Inanimate Creatures; 30 The Last Things of Inanimate Creatures |
Part VII. The Last Things in the Devastation31 Opus Domini; 32 Trembling; 33 Delight; 34 Lament; 35 Quietus; Part VIII. Bibliography; 36 Bibliographic Essays; 37 Bibliographic List; Index |
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UNINA9910954293503321 |
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French Dan (Historian) |
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When they hid the fire : a history of electricity and invisible energy in America / / Daniel French |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Intersections: environment, science, technology |
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Electric utilities - United States - History |
History |
United States |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-230) and index. |
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Preface -- Introduction -- 1. English roots, utopia found and lost -- 2. The energy revolution and the ascendancy of coal -- 3. The conundrum of smoke and visible energy -- 4. Technology and energy in the abstract -- 5. Of fluids, fields, and wizards -- 6. Energy, utopia, and the American mind -- 7. Turbines, coal, and convenience -- Conclusion. |
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When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources. With its adoption occurring |
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simultaneously with Progressivism and consumerism, electricity use was encouraged and seen as an integral part of improvement and modernity, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential--a newfound "basic right" of life in the United States. |
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