Between an Animal and a Machine: Stanislaw Lem’s Technological Utopia - Couverture rigide

Majewski, Paweł

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3631672632 ISBN 13 : 9783631672631

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2018

Synopsis

The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology of cybernetics to create a project of sociology and anthropology. The second part examines Lem's essay Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. The term «autoevolution» is a neologism for the concept of humans taking control over their own biological evolution and form in order to improve the conditions of their being. In this interpretation, Summa is an example of a liberal utopia, based on the assumption that all human problems can be resolved by science. Various social theories, which can be linked to the project of autoevolution, are presented in the final part.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631672632
• ISBN 13: 9783631672631
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne