Explores the cultural significance of androids.
The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma-loving machines we want to hate.
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Zielgruppe
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6845-6 (9780791468456)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Eric G. Wilson is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University and the author of Coleridge's Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo and The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Melancholy Android
2. The Mummy
3. The Golem
4. The Automaton
5. The Sadness of the Somnambulist
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
