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

by 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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674049357

ISBN13:9780674049352

Release Date:February 2011

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:386 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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