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Auteur(s) : Kang, Minsoo
Titre(s) : Sublime dreams of living machines [Texte imprimé] : the automaton in the European imagination / Minsoo Kang
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-374 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
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. --Book Jacket.
Sujet(s) : Robotique -- Europe -- Histoire
Robotique -- Dans l'art -- Histoire
Culture populaire -- Europe -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
629.892 094 (23e éd.) = Robots - Europe
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674049352 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42510970g
Notice n° :
FRBNF42510970
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