The Body in the Text (Interpretations Series)
Description
Male/female, white/black, mind/body: the ways in which we think about ourselves and others can be reduced to apparently simple dichotomies based on the body. But these fundamental distinctions, part of our thought since the time of the ancient Greeks, face irrevocable breakdown as we stand on the edge of revolutions in artificial intelligence, robotics and genetic engineering that will change for ever what these oppositions attempt to define: what it means to be human.Anne Cranny-Francis gives a lucid and stylish introduction to the ways in which the body is represented in literature and fi...
ISBN(s)
0522845754, 9780522845754
