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Philosophy in Review XXXVI (February 2016), no. 1 23 . Peter Swirski. Stanislaw Lem, Philosopher of the Future. Liverpool University Press 2015. 224 pp. $120.00 USD (Hardcover ISBN . 9781781381861). Peter Swirski has already established himself as one of the most devoted and knowledgeable critics of Stanislaw Lem.
(Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future by Peter Swirski, 2015, p. 16) Toward the end of the war Poland was occupied by the Red Army and the country was closely controlled by the Soviet Union for the next 50 years. Lem's family had lost all of their possessions in the course of the war.
Sep 1, 2015 · Swirski, Peter, Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future (Liverpool, 2015; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, 21 Jan. 2016), https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781381861.001.0001, accessed 25 May 2024.
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Peter Swirski. Stanis³aw Lem: Philosopher of the Future. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2015. 224 pp. $120 hc. Since Stanis³aw Lem’s death in 2006, the Polish author has continued to attract critical attention from literature scholars, philosophers, and scientists, testifying to his broad appeal across academic disciplines and to the fecundity
Nov 4, 2014 · In his latest masterpiece, Peter Swirski explores three core issues: computer written literature, machine thinking, and cultural evolution. Inspired by the writings of Stanislaw Lem, Alan Turing, and Charles Darwin—which roughly corresponds to the tripartite division of the book—and taking into consideration the latest developments in computer sciences and robotics, his main claim is that ...
Feb 23, 2016 · Abstract. Stanislaw Lem, Philosopher of the Future is a revealing and instructive guide to the philosophical fiction of Stanislaw Lem. Throughout the book, Swirski builds a framework of philosophical and scientific concepts within which Lem’s works should be read, in particular its most significant aspect: Lem’s unyielding concern for knowledge supported by his conviction that literature ...
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In the early 1990s, Lem met with the literary critic and scholar Peter Swirski for a series of extensive interviews, published together with other critical materials and translations as A Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997). In these interviews Lem speaks about a range of issues he rarely discussed previously.
