Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination

by Minsoo Kang

Book Overview

From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity.

Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049357
• ISBN13: 9780674049352
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"