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Artificial Intelligence before Computers: The History of Romantic Computationalism(Routledge Studies in Cultural History)

Artificial Intelligence before Computers: The History of Romantic Computationalism(Routledge Studies in Cultural History)


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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.

In the 2020s, there has been no escaping the debate over AI. Yet strong AI remains as much science fiction today as it was in the nineteenth century. Media archaeology has highlighted the ruptures and dead ends of technological development, recovering forgotten and obsolete technologies. Failed and imagined attempts to create thinking machines from Thomas Hobbes to Charles Babbage and from E.T.A Hoffmann to Edgar Allan Poe not only illuminate their own historical contexts; they also reveal the origins of the utopian hopes and dystopian fears that continue to shape responses to mechanised thought. Artificial Intelligence before Computers argues that we can move beyond the Romantic myth of AI only by recognising its historical roots.

Drawing on case studies from Britain, Germany and the United States, this book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars in history, philosophy, literary studies and media studies, as well as non-specialist readers seeking to understand the long history of AI.



Table of Contents:

Introduction Part I: Mechanisation of Thought 1. Early Calculators and Computationalism 2. Combinatorics and Generative Poetics 3. Camera Obscura Part II: Romantic Automata 4. Human Machine 5. Skeuomorphic Automata 6. Computing Hardware. Conclusion



About the Author :

Asko Nivala is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of Cultural History at University of Turku. His research focuses on the cultural history of the Romantic era. He is the author of The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel’s Philosophy of History (2017).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781041296706
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 276
  • Sub Title: The History of Romantic Computationalism
  • ISBN-10: 1041296703
  • Publisher Date: 25 Sep 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
  • Width: 156 mm


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