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Animals, Machines, and AI

On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History
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Published/Copyright: 2022
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Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

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Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans in modern German cultural history. In recent years, fascination with emotions, developments in robotics, and the burgeoning of animal studies in and beyond the academy have given rise to questions about the nature of humanity. Using sources from the life sciences, literature, visual art, poetry, philosophy, and photography, this collection interrogates not animal or machine emotions per se, but rather uses animals and machines as lenses through which to investigate human emotions and the affective entanglements between humans and non-humans. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more keenly aware of the importance of both animals and new technologies in our daily lives, and this volume ultimately sheds light on the centrality of non-humans in the human emotional world and the possibilities that relationships with non-humans offer for enriching that world.

Watch our talk with the editors Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek here: https://youtu.be/RBMwXah_Om8

Author / Editor information

Erika Quinn, Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, USA; Holly Yanacek, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgements

    V
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    Contents

    VII
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    List of Figures

    IX
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    Introduction: Feeling beyond the Human

    1
    Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek
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  • Emotions and Human/Non-Human Boundaries
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    Mechanical Feelings

    33
    Madalina Meirosu
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    Animals and Aesthetic Empathy in Germany around 1900

    57
    Derek Hillard
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    Control and Companion in the Work of Jakob von Uexküll and Konrad Lorenz

    79
    Jared Poley
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  • Emotional Functions of Non-Humans
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    Expressive Creatures

    97
    Sarah L. Leonard
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    Between the Animal and the Reader

    115
    Brett Martz
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    Robots, Machines, and Humanity

    139
    Erika Quinn
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  • Empathic Understanding between Humans and Non-Humans
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    “Penetrating the Innermost Heart”

    169
    Claudia Mueller-Greene
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    I Know What the Caged Cat Feels

    195
    Andrea Meyertholen
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    Benevolent Bots

    219
    Holly Yanacek
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    Notes on Contributors

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    Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
November 8, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110753677
Hardcover published on:
November 22, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110753660
Paperback published on:
May 8, 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9783111277769
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
249
Illustrations:
4
Coloured Illustrations:
5
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753677
eBook ISBN: 9783110753677
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110753660
Paperback ISBN: 9783111277769
Keywords for this book
History of emotions; emotions and non-humans; literary and cultural animal studies; robots in fiction
Audience(s) for this book
Germanists, emotion scholars, historians, literary and film scholars, and students in German studies
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