Artificial Intelligence before Computers: The History of Romantic Computationalism

By Asko Nivala

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041296703
• ISBN13: 9781041296706
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"