The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In... Læs mere
The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In... Læs mere
This cultural history of thinking machines examines conceptions of the human as an automaton and the possibility of mechanised thought in philosophical and literary works from the seventeenth century to the 1840s, with particular emphasis on the Romantic period.