Melancholy Android, The
On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
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 t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-8132-5
- EAN: 9780791481325
- Produktnummer: 35072744
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'455 KB
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