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El biomejoramiento moral y su relación con la ética y la justicia
Isegoría, 2022 En este artículo intentaré mostrar el discurso moralista empleado por Persson y Savulescu en su obra ¿Preparados para el futuro? La necesidad del mejoramiento moral.
Asunción Herrera Guevara
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Stanislaw Lem and the Biological Sublime. Biology, Technology, Science Fiction
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 This article introduces the concept of the biological sublime and argues that it is central to Stanislaw Lem’s science-fictional poetics. The biological sublime is an aesthetic reaction to the monstrous body conceptualized in terms derived from the ...
Elana Gomel
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New novel and mathematics [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2007 Author in the study damasks false analogy of a genre of new novel with mathematic creating process as it was proposed by some theoreticians. New novel according to theoretical assumptions of the representatives of the theory replaces a function of ...
Stanislaw Lem
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Functionalism and Personal Identity – The Case of Mr. Jones
Profil, 2021 Stanisław Lem’s short story Are you there Mr. Jones?, first published in 1955, is set in a courtroom. The plaintiff is Cybernetics Company – a provider of prosthetics – and the defendant is Harry Jones, a race-car driver. It turns out that Mr.
Gunnar Karlsen, Anne Granberg
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Teksty Drugie, 2023 The article reflects on the possible reasons for the silence about Stanisław Lem’s Jewish background. This was not an isolated matter in Poland. Thus, the article treats Lem’s example as a case study of the troubled identity of Polish Jews after the ...
Stanisław Obirek
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 577-617, December 2025.Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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The Two Cultures Revisited. Stanisław Lem’s His Master’s Voice
Interlitteraria, 2019 I would like to take, as my starting point, the famous 1959 lecture of C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures, where science fiction is by and large ignored, and see how the consecutive points Snow is making are also discussed in the following decades of the 20th ...
Dominika Oramus
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Le lexique fantastique des deux côtés de la Vistule
Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2017 Fantastic Vocabulary on Two Sides of the Vistula River. Example of Translations of „The Cyberiad” by Stanislas Lem into Ukrainian and French The work of Stanisław Lem aroused a lot of interest and fascination with literary critics and readers.
Kaja Gostkowska, Natalia Grabar
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 2021 Artykuł poświęcony jest dwugłosowi o powieści Stanisława Lema „Astronauci" (1951), który został zamieszczony na łamach periodyku „Nowa Kultura”. Uczestnikami dyskusji byli: Zofia Woźnicka, Ludwik Grzeniewski i Stanisław Lem, będący zarazem polemistą ...
Adam Mazurkiewicz
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Revisiting Solaris: Encountering Otherness and the Limits of Representation
Profil, 2021 One of the core themes of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Solaris is the encounter with radical otherness. The ocean planet being studied by scientists from earth is usually interpreted as a representation of radical otherness, which eludes human efforts of ...
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