Sublime Dreams of Living Machines : : The Automaton in the European Imagination /

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines : : The Automaton in the European Imagination / / Minsoo Kang.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Kang, Minsoo,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (386 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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