The melancholy android [[electronic resource] ] : on the psychology of sacred machines / / Eric G. Wilson
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Wilson Eric <1967->
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| Titolo: |
The melancholy android [[electronic resource] ] : on the psychology of sacred machines / / Eric G. Wilson
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 154.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mind and body |
| Melancholy | |
| Androids | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The melancholy android -- The mummy -- The golem -- The automaton -- The sadness of the somnambulist. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma—loving machines we want to hate. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The melancholy android |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8132-8 |
| 1-4294-0508-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819631803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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