株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales.
商品詳細
I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales.
・ISBN 978-1-4384-9662-7 paper US$ 36.95
￥8,657.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Cohen, Signe, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2024 |
| ページ数 | 296 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-26540＞ |
解説
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.
Winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies presented by the American Academy of Religion
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.