Published: 2022-12-17

Philosophical Reflections on Posthumanism in Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem [斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆作品《泥人十四》中的后人类主义哲学思考]

Yinhui Mao Logo ORCID , Yan Sun Logo ORCID
Section: Literary and translation studies inspirations
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.30.11

Abstract

In the 1990s, posthumanism gained popularity in interdisciplinary research, and its concept of the personification of technology and the “cyborg” offered a wide scope for science fiction. But as early as the 1970s, Polish science fiction novelist Stanisław Lem had already made a manifesto of posthumanism in his work, in which he created Golem XIV, a typical cyborg, and expressed his own views on the relationship between human and technology, human and non-human, etc. through the narration of this artificial intelligence. In his book, he created Golem XIV, the archetypal cyborg. The philosophical ideas of Lem in Golem XIV not only coincide with the present theories of posthumanism in many ways, but also have some insightful thoughts that go far beyond the framework of posthumanist thought and are more forward-looking. This paper includes the history of the development of the discipline of posthumanism, discussion on the content of Lem’s Golem XIV, an in-depth analysis of posthumanist thinking, and Lem’s own unique philosophical views in the hope of providing new ideas for interpreting Lem’s work.

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Mao, Y., & Sun, Y. (2022). Philosophical Reflections on Posthumanism in Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem [斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆作品《泥人十四》中的后人类主义哲学思考]. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 30(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.30.11

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-03-01


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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