Dialogues
$63.38
- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was “conceived under the spell of cybernetics” in 1957 and updated in 1971.
In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book “conceived under the spell of cybernetics,” as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Lem’s original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262542937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262542935 |
| Author: | Stanislaw Lem, Peter Butko |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“More than half a century ago, Stanislaw Lem gazed into the future and saw, rather than rockets or ray guns, the evolution of the synthetic mind and the humans creating it. Thanks to these translations, English-language readers can share in his vision—long after he first imagined the internet and its thinking machines.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Dialogues is important now because it describes (or described, rather, more than half a century ago—you can almost hear Lem’s slow hand-clapping from the Beyond) all the ways we do not comprehend the world we have made… Peter Butko’s translations of the Dialogues, and the revisionist essays Lem added to the 1971 second edition, are as witty and playful as Lem’s allusive Polish prose demands. His endnotes are practically a book in themselves (and an entertaining one too). Translated so well, Lem needs no explanation, no contextualisation, no excuse-making.”—The Times (UK)
About The Author
Stanislaw Lem
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.
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