TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hillard,Derek
AU  - Leonard,Sarah L.
AU  - Martz,Brett
AU  - Meirosu,Madalina
AU  - Meyertholen,Andrea
AU  - Mueller-Greene,Claudia
AU  - Poley,Jared
AU  - Quinn,Erika
AU  - Yanacek,Holly
TI  - Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History 
T2  - Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
SN  - 9783110753660
U1  - 830.9362 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Animals in mass media
KW  - Computers in literature
KW  - German literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Technology in popular culture
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History of emotions
KW  - emotions and non-humans
KW  - literary and cultural animal studies
KW  - robots in fiction
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction: Feeling beyond the Human --; Emotions and Human/Non-Human Boundaries --; Mechanical Feelings --; Animals and Aesthetic Empathy in Germany around 1900 --; Control and Companion in the Work of Jakob von Uexküll and Konrad Lorenz --; Emotional Functions of Non-Humans --; Expressive Creatures --; Between the Animal and the Reader --; Robots, Machines, and Humanity --; Empathic Understanding between Humans and Non-Humans --; “Penetrating the Innermost Heart” --; I Know What the Caged Cat Feels --; Benevolent Bots --; Notes on Contributors --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans in modern German cultural history. In recent years, fascination with emotions, developments in robotics, and the burgeoning of animal studies in and beyond the academy have given rise to questions about the nature of humanity. Using sources from the life sciences, literature, visual art, poetry, philosophy, and photography, this collection interrogates not animal or machine emotions per se, but rather uses animals and machines as lenses through which to investigate human emotions and the affective entanglements between humans and non-humans. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more keenly aware of the importance of both animals and new technologies in our daily lives, and this volume ultimately sheds light on the centrality of non-humans in the human emotional world and the possibilities that relationships with non-humans offer for enriching that world. Watch our talk with the editors Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek here: https://youtu.be/RBMwXah_Om8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753677
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110753677
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110753677/original
ER  -