8 Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 3
4. Smart Robots 13
5. (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem’s “The Mask” 22
6. Betrization Is the Worst Solution…with the Exception of All Others 47
7. A Freudian Peek at Lem’s Fiasco 72
8. Summa technologiae – Looking Back and Ahead 81
9. Models of Evolution in the Writings of Stanislaw Lem 104
10. Skepticism, Realism, Fallibilism: On Lem’s Epistemological Themes 117
11. Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire 130
12. Lem on Film 153
13. Solaris! Solaris. Solaris? 172
14. Stanislaw Lem A Brief Chronological Biography 181
15. Bibliography 183
16. About the Authors 195