Between an Animal and a Machine
The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. It contains an analysis of one of his early works, The Dialogues, as well as of his essay, Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. Moreover, various social theories, which can be linked with the project of autoevolution, are presented.
The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. It contains an analysis of one of his early works, The Dialogues, as well as of his essay, Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. Moreover, various social theories, which can be linked with the project of autoevolution, are presented.
| Autor: | Majewski, Pawel |
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| ISBN: | 9783631672631 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 246 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Veröffentlicht: | 12.10.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Stanislaw Lem’s Technological Utopia |
| Schlagworte: | Animal Kowalska Lem’s Machine Majewski Malgorzata Pawel autoevolution cybernetics literary studies |
Pawel Majewski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. His main areas of research are: influence of writing on the intellectual and cognitive processes in the human mind; history of communication; bias of alphabetic writing as a vehicle of cultural communication.