Sublime Dreams of Living Machines : : The Automaton in the European Imagination / / Minsoo Kang.
Kang’s central contention is that the automaton, a machine that can move by itself (better known today as the robot), is one of the essential ideas with which people in the West have pondered the very nature of humanity itself. In Kang’s telling, automata are mirrors of the ideas, fears, and anxieti...
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Kang, Minsoo, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sublime Dreams of Living Machines : The Automaton in the European Imagination / Minsoo Kang. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (386 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Power of the Automaton -- 2 Between Magic and Mechanics: The Automaton in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- 3 The Man-machine in the World-machine, 1637–1748 -- 4 From the Man-machine to the Automaton-man, 1748–1793 -- 5 The Uncanny Automaton, 1789–1833 -- 6 The Living Machines of the Industrial Age, 1833–1914 -- 7 The Revolt of the Robots, 1914–1935 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Kang’s central contention is that the automaton, a machine that can move by itself (better known today as the robot), is one of the essential ideas with which people in the West have pondered the very nature of humanity itself. In Kang’s telling, automata are mirrors of the ideas, fears, and anxieties of a given era, in that attitudes towards the machines have always been indicative of a moment’s zeitgeist. The book is historically sweeping, but not comprehensive; the focus is on what Kang takes to be key changes in the representations of and responses to automata. His main interest is on how Europeans in different periods of the past thought about the very notion of a self-moving machine that acted as if it were alive and how they used it for various symbolic and intellectual purposes. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Popular culture History Europe. Popular culture Europe History. Robotics Popular works. Robotics History Europe. Robotics Europe History. Robots in art History. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059412?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059412 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674059412/original |
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