It presents daring hypotheses, shows the way, which - according to the author - human technological thought and culture will follow in the future. The second part examines Lems essay Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project. In this respect Summa Technologiae is different: it is a summa and a 'building', but in the sense of futuristic architecture. The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisaw Lem. Filozofia Przypadku 'erects a building of outlook' searching for structures common to biological evolution, history, culture, art, etc. Problem:It’s the wrong bookIt’s the wrong editionOther Details (if other): Cancel Thanks for telling us about the problem. After five decades this work has lost none of its intellectual or critical significance, resonating with contemporary debates about information and new media, the life. It deals with problems that are even more important now than when the book was written - these issues are the most fascinating fulfillment of Lem's prognoses in the field of culture and technology.ĭialogs are partly 'submerged' in an abstract of a philosophical dispute and current political topics Fantastyka i Futurologia deals with problems of science fiction as a genre and its - usually dishonest - relationship with science. In Summa Technologiae, Stanisaw Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. These other works are no less interesting, however Summa as a logical argument is 'closed'. Among Lem's essays Summa Technologiae occupies a central position, leaving behind cybernetic Dialogs, Fantastyka i Futurologia, Filolozofia Przypadku (an attempt at a 'general theory of everything').

Summa technologiae by Stanisław Lem