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050	0	0	_aTJ211.15 _b.K36 2011
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100	1		_aKang, Minsoo, _eauthor. _9820138
245	1	0	_aSublime dreams of living machines : _bthe automaton in the European imagination / _cMinsoo Kang.
246	3	0	_aAutomaton in the European imagination
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachussetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2011
300			_ax, 374 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe power of the automaton -- Between magic and mechanics: the automaton in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The man-machine in the world-machine, 1637-1748 -- From the man-machine to the automaton-man, 1748-1793 -- The uncanny automaton, 1789-1833 -- The living machines of the industrial age, 1833-1914 -- The revolt of the robots, 1914-1935.
520			_aFrom 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, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves. --Book Jacket.
650		0	_aRobotics _vPopular works _9595089
650		0	_aRobots in art _xHistory _9665729
650		0	_aPopular culture _zEurope _xHistory _9632765
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