{"product_id":"melancholy-android","title":"Melancholy Android","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the cultural significance of androids.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410534256984,"sku":"9780791468463","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780791468463.jpg?v=1777897810","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/melancholy-android","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}