{"product_id":"the-melancholy-android-eric-g-wilson-9780791468463","title":"The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric G. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791468461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791468463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.45d","brand":"Eric G. Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148194291967,"sku":"9780791468463","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-melancholy-android-eric-g-wilson-9780791468463","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}