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Cohen, Signe

 
9781438496627: I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales
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ISBN 10: 1438496621 ISBN 13: 9781438496627
Editorial: SUNY Press, 2024

Sinopsis

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

What does it mean to be human? I, Yantra examines ancient Indian narratives about robots and mechanically constructed beings to explore how their Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist authors approached this question. Making translations of many of these texts available in English for the first time, author Signe Cohen argues that they shed considerable light on South Asian religious notions of humanity, self, and agency. She also documents connections between ancient and modern responses to the ethical problems of what precisely constitutes a sentient being and what rights such a being should have. Situated at the intersection of humanities and bioethics, this cross-disciplinary study will be of interest to scholars of South Asian languages and literature as well as specialists in religion and technology.

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Acerca del autor

Signe Cohen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts and Text and Authority in the Older Upaniads and the editor of The Upaniads: A Complete Guide.

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Editorial
SUNY Press
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1438496621
ISBN 13 
9781438496627
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
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