Mad scientist, impossible human : an essay in generative anthropology / / Andrew Bartlett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460444003321
• Autore: Bartlett Andrew <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Aurora, Colorado : , : The Davies Group, Publishers, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-943047-01-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Philosophical anthropology; Language and languages - Origin; Human beings - Philosophy; Science - Philosophy; Religion - Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Table of contents""; ""Chapter One The Frankenstein Myth, Scientism, and Generative Anthropology""; ""Four Stories, One Formula""; ""Defending the Mad Scientist Plays God Formula""; ""Resisting Victimary Attitudes""; ""More Criteria for Counting as a Story that Builds Up the Frankenstein Myth""; ""Scientism as the Reduction of Anthropology to Biology""; ""Studying to Say Almost Nothing of the Origin of Language""; ""On That Which Necessarily Must Have Happened Accidentally""; ""The Exchange of Abortive Gestures of Appropriation""; ""Experience of the Object-as-Sacred: Revelation without Cognition""""Experience of the Object-as-Esthetic: Imaginary Possession, Recognized Inviolability (To and Fro)""; ""The Object-as- Cosmological: From Good (Minimal) Scienceto Scientism""; ""Exchangeability and Desacralization""; ""Tortured Matter, Multiple Errors""; ""Chapter Two Mary Shelleyâ€?s Frankenstein (1818): Experiment and Irreversibility""; ""Two Ways of Approaching the Book and Its Author""; ""Victora's Early Career: Discovery and Experiment""; ""Irreversible Experiment and the ; Event-Structure ofScientific Revelation""; ""The Mock-Creation Scene of Failed Integration""""The Vain Scientist as Pseudo-Savior""; ""A Concluding Retrospective""; ""Chapter Three Allegories of Playing God in The Island of Dr. Moreau""; ""H. G. Wells and Biological Thinking""; ""Moreau Playing the God of Punctualist Creation Theology""; ""Moreau Playing the Gradualist God of Liberal Theology""; ""Moreau as One Who Believes in Scientific Species-making (The Atheist Plays God)""; ""The Island of Mr. Prendick""; ""On the Mercy-killing of the Leopard Man""; ""Hypnotism and the Unnatural Language of the Beast People""; ""Prendick's Farewell""""Chapter Four Karel Cape's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)Mechanical Not Erotic""; ""R.U.R. as Rebellious Heir to Frankenstein and Moreau""; ""To Believe in an Economy of Mechanical Value""; ""Android Automata and the Comedy of Baffled Activism""; ""Altered Androids and Mechanical Resentment Mobilized""; ""Committee Robots and Primary Humanoids""; ""Cape's Originary Script and the Popularity of Robots""; ""Chapter Five Blade Runner: Minimizing the Difference of the Impossible Human""; ""Blade Runner as Postmodern Frankenstein: Contesting the Non difference Thesis""""Corporate Science and Postmodern Paranoia: Tyrell as Scapegoat""; ""Falling in Love with the Impossible Human""; ""Victimary Thinking and the Human/Replicant Boundary""; ""On the Vanity of Eldon Tyrell""; ""Batty's Enigmatic Gesture of Rescue""; ""On the Dying Lines of Roy Batty""; ""Chapter Six Afterword: Sharing the Human Scene""; ""Inequality and Mad Science: Imagining a Mind-Materializer""; ""Sharing Our Origin in Language""; ""Endnotes""; ""Notes to 1 / Minimal Anthropology""; ""Notes to Two / Shelley's Frankenstein""