Description: Further DetailsTitle: Sublime Dreams of Living MachinesCondition: NewEAN: 9780674049352ISBN: 9780674049352Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 28/02/2011Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Minsoo KangLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Automaton in the European ImaginationISBN-10: 0674049357Description: From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity.Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today.Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Technology & EngineeringTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Publication Name: Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
Title: Sublime Dreams of Living Machines
EAN: 9780674049352
ISBN: 9780674049352
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Year: 2011
Release Date: 28/02/2011
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Author: Minsoo Kang
Language: English
Subtitle: The Automaton in the European Imagination
ISBN-10: 0674049357
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Subject: Science Nature & Math
