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OverviewThe Polish writer Stanisław Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novelSolaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. In Summa Technologiae - his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time - Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stanisław Lem , Joanna ZylinskaPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.735kg ISBN: 9780816675760ISBN 10: 0816675767 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 04 March 2013 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews<p> At the end of the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas wrote the Summa Theologiae , an ambitious compendium of all orthodox philosophical and theological knowledge about the world. Seven hundred years later, science fiction author Stanislaw Lem writes his Summa Technologiae , an equally ambitious but unorthodox investigation into the perplexities and enigmas of humanity and its relationship to an equally enigmatic world in which it finds itself embedded. In this work Lem shows us science fiction as a method of inquiry, one that renders the future as tenuous as the past, with a wavering, 'phantomatic' present always at hand. --Eugene Thacker, author of After Life Author InformationStanislaw Lem (19212006) was the best-known science fiction author writing outside the English language. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Joanna Zylinska is professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media and The Ethics of Cultural Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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