Sublime Dreams of Living Machines The Automaton in the European Imagination

Name: Sublime Dreams of Living Machines The Automaton in the European Imagination
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ISBN: 9780674049352

ISBN-10: 0674049357

ISBN-13: 9780674049352

Edition: 2011

Authors: Minsoo Kang

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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…

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List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 386
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



The Power of the Automaton



Between Magic and Mechanics: The Automaton in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance



The Man-machine in the World-machine, 1637-1748



From the Man-machine to the Automaton-man, 1748-1793



The Uncanny Automaton, 1789-1833



The Living Machines of the Industrial Age, 1833-1914



The Revolt of the Robots, 1914-1935


Conclusion


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index