TY - BOOK ID - 138461344 TI - The art and science of Stanislaw Lem PY - 2006 SN - 0773578293 1282865625 0773575073 9786612865626 9780773575073 0773530460 9780773530461 9780773530478 9780773578296 9781282865624 6612865628 PB - Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Polish literature. KW - Lem, Stanisław KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Lem, Stanisaw UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138461344 AB - The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship. Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy. This unique collection also includes "Smart Robots," a previously unpublished essay by Lem. Contributors include Peter Butko (Southern Mississippi), Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr (DePauw), Katherine Hayles (California at Los Angeles), Jerzy Jarzebski (Jagiellonian, University Cracow), Michael Kandel (Modern Language Association), Stanislaw Lem, Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Krzysztof Loska (Jagiellonian University), and Peter Swirski (Hong Kong). ER -