03995nam 22006012 450 99620115100331620151109030844.01-139-80128-71-139-00246-5(CKB)1000000000820036(MH)011961503-7(SSID)ssj0000371603(PQKBManifestationID)12108272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000371603(PQKBWorkID)10413162(PQKB)10330107(UkCbUP)CR9781139002462(EXLCZ)99100000000082003620110114d2009|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Cambridge companion to Constant /edited by Helena Rosenblatt[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2009.1 online resource (xxix, 416 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge companions to philosophyTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).0-521-67243-0 0-521-85646-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index.Benjamin Constant: life and work / Dennis Wood -- Liberalism's lucid illusion / Marcel Gauchet -- The liberty to denounce: ancient and modern / Stephen Holmes -- Constant's idea of modern liberty / Jeremy Jennings -- Benjamin Constant and the terror / Stefano de Luca -- Constant's thought on slavery and empire / Jennifer Pitts -- Benjamin Constant as a second Restoration politician / Robert Alexander -- Constant and women / K. Steven Vincent -- Individualism and individuality in Constant / Gerald Izenberg -- Literature and politics in Constant / Patrick Coleman -- The theory of the perfectibility of the human race / Etienne Hofmann -- Religion according to Constant / Tzvetan Todorov -- Constant on the religious spirit of liberalism / Bryan Garsten -- Constant and religion: "theism descends from heaven to earth" / Laurence Dickey -- Eclipses and revivals: Constant's reception in France and America 1830-2007 / Helena RosenblattBenjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.Cambridge companions to philosophy.IntellectualsFranceBiographyLiberalismFranceHistoryNovelists, Swiss19th centuryBiographyFranceIntellectual life19th centuryFrancePolitics and government1814-1830FrancePolitics and government1789-1815IntellectualsLiberalismHistory.Novelists, Swiss944'.06'092Rosenblatt Helena1961-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996201151003316Cambridge Companion to Constant1111481UNISAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress04163nam 22006374a 450 991078106670332120200520144314.01-282-53748-297866125374860-226-72083-710.7208/9780226720838(CKB)2550000000007472(EBL)485987(OCoLC)593240120(SSID)ssj0000338059(PQKBManifestationID)11230358(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000338059(PQKBWorkID)10295685(PQKB)10439996(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123091(MiAaPQ)EBC485987(DE-B1597)523339(OCoLC)1135583213(DE-B1597)9780226720838(Au-PeEL)EBL485987(CaPaEBR)ebr10366796(CaONFJC)MIL253748(EXLCZ)99255000000000747220070129d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenesis redux[electronic resource] essays in the history and philosophy of artificial life /edited by Jessica RiskinChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (408 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-72080-2 0-226-72081-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Sistine Gap -- 2. The Imitation of Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy -- 3. The Devil as Automaton: Giovanni Fontana and the Meanings of a Fifteenth-Century Machine -- 4. Infinite Gesture: Automata and the Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare -- 5. Abstracting from the Soul: The Mechanics of Locomotion -- 6. The Anatomy of Artificial Life: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective -- 7. The Homunculus and the Mandrake: Art Aiding Nature versus Art Faking Nature -- 8. Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern: An Eighteenth- Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology -- 9. The Gender of Automata in Victorian Britain -- 10. Techno-Humanism: Requiem for the Cyborg -- 11. Nanobots and Nanotubes: Two Alternative Biomimetic Paradigms of Nanotechnology -- 12. Creating Insight: Gestalt Theory and the Early Computer -- 13. Perpetual Devotion: A Sixteenth-Century Machine That Prays -- 14. Motions and Passions: Music-Playing Women Automata and the Culture of Affect in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 15. An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- 16. Booting Up Baby -- 17. Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human -- IndexSince antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms.Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars iArtificial lifeartificial life, creation, mechanism, consciousness, inanimate, robots, machines, science, technology, intelligence, antiquity, ancient greece, philosophy, giovanni fontana, automata, descartes, shakespeare, locomotion, emotion, mechanics, mandrake, homunculus, art, nature, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, sex ratio, nanotechnology, cyborg, computer, gestalt theory, prayer, affect, religion, spirituality, language, nonfiction.Artificial life.113/.8ST 300rvkRiskin Jessica1525837MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781066703321Genesis redux3767457UNINA