{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-cyborg-1","title":"The Enlightenment Cyborg","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic processes - is firmly rooted in the post-modern, post-industrial, post-Enlightenment, post-nature, post-gender, or post-human culture of the late twentieth century. Allison Muri argues, however, that there is a long and rich tradition of art and philosophy that explores the equivalence of human and machine, and that the cybernetic organism as both a literary figure and an anatomical model has, in fact, existed since the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment Cyborg\u003c\/i\u003e, Muri presents cultural evidence - in literary, philosophical, scientific, and medical texts - for the existence of mechanically steered, or 'cyber' humans in the works seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers. Muri illustrates how Enlightenment exploration of the notion of the 'man-machine' was inextricably tied to ideas of reproduction, government, individual autonomy, and the soul, demonstrating an early connection between scientific theory and social and political thought. She argues that late twentieth-century social and political movements, such as socialism, feminism, and even conservatism, are thus not unique in their use of the cyborg as a politicized trope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment Cyborg\u003c\/i\u003e establishes a dialogue between eighteenth-century studies and cyborg art and theory, and makes a significant and original contribution to both of these fields of inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Allison Muri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617607934332,"sku":"9781442684904","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442684904.jpg?v=1731031035","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-enlightenment-cyborg-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}