Ludzie jak bogowie : koncepcje "człowieka przyszłości" w utopiach i antyutopiach od Herberta George’a Wellsa do Margaret Atwood

Ludzie jak bogowie : koncepcje "człowieka przyszłości" w utopiach i antyutopiach od Herberta George’a Wellsa do Margaret Atwood

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Ludzie jak bogowie : koncepcje "człowieka przyszłości" w utopiach i antyutopiach od Herberta George’a Wellsa do Margaret Atwood

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title:	Ludzie jak bogowie : koncepcje "człowieka przyszłości" w utopiach i antyutopiach od Herberta George’a Wellsa do Margaret Atwood
alternative title:	Men like Gods : the concept of "man of the future" in utopias and dystopias from Wells through Atwood
author:	Całek Anita
editor:	Korytowska Maria , Puchalska Iwona
book title:	Olimp - ideał, doskonałość, absolut
date of publication :	2014
place of publication : name of publisher:	Kraków : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
pages:	413-429
ISBN:	978-83-233-3757-7
series:	Komparatystyka Polska
notes:	Strona wydawcy: https://www.wuj.pl
language:	Polish
book language:	Polish
abstract in English:	Ever since utopian literature appeared, the idea of a perfect world has implied - as an indispensable element - the need for man’s improvement or even shaping him anew through implementing eugenic projects and specifi c educational actions. But the utopian literature of the XXth century went even further: although in 1923 Herbert George Wells tried to draw such a trajectory of the evolution of mankind as to make its representatives become ‘like gods’, subsequent writers explored the possibility of creating a new race of rational beings to replace man in the future. It is thus worth tracing the new concepts of mankind in the XXth and XXIst century novels where it is a product of cloning (A. Huxley, K. Ishiguro, M. Houellebecq), has adapted to life on Earth following an apocalypse (M. Atwood) or is a result of the world’s virtualization (J. Dukaj). Th e new creatures which in theory were supposed to be a ‘perfect product’ exceeding the limits of human existence, in practice appear to have latent defects. The creation of neohumans, stahs, ‘blacks’ or ‘the Crakers’ that uses the implicit concept of the ‘ideal rational being’ lets contemporary writers make various, not always optimistic, forecasts concerning ‘man of the future’.
number of pulisher's sheets:	1
affiliation:	Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Komparatystyki Literackiej
type:	chapter
subtype:	academic paper