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This 3 page paper discusses Michael Adas's book, "Machines as the Measure of Men." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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imperialism and the important role of the civilizing mission" (Ross, 2006). This viewpoint-that "developed" nations have a mission to "civilize" the "other"-is a key component of the book, as well
see. In fact, "[T]he books essential analysis is that "mastery of nature lay at the heart of Europes comparison of itself to others" (New York Times Book Review). This paper
is a review and analysis of Adass book Machines as the Measure of Men. Discussion In this book, Adas uses material that spans five centuries and many languages and sifts
through it to develop "an impressive treatise on the fluidity of European perceptions of the other over time" (Ross, 2006). The "other" in this usage means the person who is
different from "us"-today the most vilified "other" for most Americans is young Middle Eastern men. Its necessary for a country such as the United States, which, it can be argued,
is an imperialist power, to keep the specter of the "other" before the people. The enemy thus created is an excuse for any action the U.S. decides to take in
its own interests. Adas is concerned here not with the U.S. but with Europe, which "created an ideology of Western superiority with regard to non-Western peoples" through its "scientific thought
and technological innovation" (Ross, 2006). Europe, after all, was the site of The Enlightenment, that extraordinary flowering of scientific thinking that occurred in the 18th century (Age of enlightenment, 2006).
Enlightenment thinking "advocated rationality as a means to establish an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics and logic. The intellectual leaders of this movement regarded themselves as a courageous elite, and
regarded their purpose as one of leading the world toward progress and out of a long period of doubtful tradition, full of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny" (Age of enlightenment, 2006).
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