Mad scientist, impossible human : an essay in generative anthropology / Andrew Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartlett, Andrew, 1960- author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Human beings--Philosophy.

Human beings.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aurora, Colorado : The Davies Group, Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Table of contents""; ""Chapter One The Frankenstein Myth, Scientism, and Generative Anthropology""; ""Four Stories, One Formula""; ""Defending the Mad Scientist Plays God Formula""; ""Resisting Victimary Attitudes""; ""More Criteria for Counting as a Story that Builds Up the Frankenstein Myth""; ""Scientism as the Reduction of Anthropology to Biology""; ""Studying to Say Almost Nothing of the Origin of Language""; ""On That Which Necessarily Must Have Happened Accidentally""; ""The Exchange of Abortive Gestures of Appropriation""

""Experience of the Object-as-Sacred: Revelation without Cognition""""Experience of the Object-as-Esthetic: Imaginary Possession, Recognized Inviolability (To and Fro)""; ""The Object-as- Cosmological: From Good (Minimal) Scienceto Scientism""; ""Exchangeability and Desacralization""; ""Tortured Matter, Multiple Errors""; ""Chapter Two Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein (1818): Experiment and Irreversibility""; ""Two Ways of Approaching the Book and Its Author""; ""Victora's Early Career: Discovery and Experiment""; ""Irreversible Experiment and the Event-Structure ofScientific Revelation""

""The Mock-Creation Scene of Failed Integration""""The Vain Scientist as Pseudo-Savior""; ""A Concluding Retrospective""; ""Chapter Three Allegories of Playing God in The Island of Dr. Moreau""; ""H. G. Wells and Biological Thinking""; ""Moreau Playing the God of Punctualist Creation Theology""; ""Moreau Playing the Gradualist God of Liberal Theology""; ""Moreau as One Who Believes in Scientific Species-making (The Atheist Plays God)""; ""The Island of Mr. Prendick""; ""On the Mercy-killing of the Leopard Man""; ""Hypnotism and the Unnatural Language of the Beast People""

""Prendick's Farewell""""Chapter Four Karel Cape's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)Mechanical Not Erotic""; ""R.U.R. as Rebellious Heir to Frankenstein and Moreau""; ""To Believe in an Economy of Mechanical Value""; ""Android Automata and the Comedy of Baffled Activism""; ""Altered Androids and Mechanical Resentment Mobilized""; ""Committee Robots and Primary Humanoids""; ""Cape's Originary Script and the Popularity of Robots""; ""Chapter Five Blade Runner: Minimizing the Difference of the Impossible Human""

""Blade Runner as Postmodern Frankenstein: Contesting the Non difference Thesis""""Corporate Science and Postmodern Paranoia: Tyrell as Scapegoat""; ""Falling in Love with the Impossible Human""; ""Victimary Thinking and the Human/Replicant Boundary""; ""On the Vanity of Eldon Tyrell""; ""Batty's Enigmatic Gesture of Rescue""; ""On the Dying Lines of Roy Batty""; ""Chapter Six Afterword: Sharing the Human Scene""; ""Inequality and Mad Science: Imagining a Mind-Materializer""; ""Sharing Our Origin in Language""; ""Endnotes""; ""Notes to 1 / Minimal Anthropology""

""Notes to Two / Shelley's Frankenstein""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-943047-01-4

OCLC:

922998714