Artificial Human
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A01=Horst Albert Glaser
A01=Sabine Rossbach
Age of the Machine
Author_Horst Albert Glaser
Author_Sabine Rossbach
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631578087
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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Artificial humans were always there, moving and sleeping amongst us. Their first traces are in the ancient myths of Prometheus and Pygmalion. In the eighteenth century they took the form of mechanical dolls, forerunners of the hi-tech Japanese robots of our own day produced in the engineering labs of Waseda and Osaka Universities. The authors follow the track of these humanoid constructs through various countries and across more than two thousand years of history, reflecting on the ideas that spawned them (Descartes, Leibniz, LaMettrie) and the social, technological and medical developments that accompanied and to a great extent explain them.
Horst Albert Glaser is professor emeritus of Aesthetics and Comparative Literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). He has published Medea: Women of Honor, Child Murder, Emancipation in 2001.
Sabine Rossbach teaches cultural history at the University of Adelaide (Australia) and the University of the Saarland (Germany). In 2005, she has published Modern Mannerism: Literature, Film, Fine Arts.
Sabine Rossbach teaches cultural history at the University of Adelaide (Australia) and the University of the Saarland (Germany). In 2005, she has published Modern Mannerism: Literature, Film, Fine Arts.
