'The Dialogues' of Stanislaw Lem - cybernetics as anthropology

• Authors: Majewski P.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper concerns one of the early works by Stanislaw Lem, 'The Dialogues', and attempts at its analysis and interpretation. The conceptual basis for 'The Dialogues' is cybernetics, a field of science which became very important in the 1950s and 1960s. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology and methods of cybernetics to create a unique project of sociology and anthropology. Nevertheless, this project was not successful because of the insoluble contradictions between cybernetic and anthropological paradigms.

Keywords

EN

LEM STANISLAW -'THE DIALOGUES' (ANALYSIS)

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 153-166
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Majewski P.

• P. Majewski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02044344