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Between an Animal and a Machine - Stanislaw Lem's Technological Utopia (Hardcover, New edition)
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Between an Animal and a Machine - Stanislaw Lem's Technological Utopia (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modernity in Question, 10
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The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. The
first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his
early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used
the terminology of cybernetics to create a project of sociology and
anthropology. The second part examines Lem's essay Summa
technologiae, which is considered as the project of human
autoevolution. The term "autoevolution" is a neologism for the
concept of humans taking control over their own biological
evolution and form in order to improve the conditions of their
being. In this interpretation, Summa is an example of a liberal
utopia, based on the assumption that all human problems can be
resolved by science. Various social theories, which can be linked
to the project of autoevolution, are presented in the final part.
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