The Melancholy Android - On the Psychology of Sacred Machines (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	October 2006
Authors:	Eric G. Wilson
Dimensions:	228 x 153 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6846-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7914-6846-1
Barcode:	9780791468463

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