Hermann Schmidt is one of the key figures in the development of cybernetics. Concurrently with Norbert Wiener, yet independently of him, he founded what was then dubbed ‘control engineering’ in Berlin in the early 1940s. After the war, without knowing what Wiener was discovering at around the same time in the USA, Schmidt, who had a profound knowledge of engineering, developed a technical way of thinking that increasingly approached philosophy. At the end of the 1960s, after cybernetics had become extremely popular in education, for example, Schmidt arrived at an anthropology based on cybernetics. By this time, he had already become an international figurehead of cybernetics. His work was described as ‘epoch-making’, even for politics. Today, in times of the triumph of super-intelligent technology that will radically change our world and is already changing it, consideration of Schmidt's work is essential to understanding what is happening here and now. The volume ‘Automat und Existenz’, edited and annotated by Peter Trawny, brings together Schmidt’s most important texts for the first time. A foreword places them in the context of contemporary discussions between well-known philosophers such as Arnold Gehlen and Martin Heidegger.
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Publication year
2025
Publication date
15.10.2025
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-14719-0
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Klostermann Rote Reihe
Language
German
Pages
128
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Inhaltsverzeichnis No access
Automat und Existenz Ein Vorwort zur Herausgabe von Texten Hermann Schmidts No access Pages 7 - 18
Regelungstechnik Die technische Aufgabe und ihre wirtschaftliche, sozialpolitische und kulturpolitische Auswirkung No access Pages 19 - 46
Der Mensch in der technischen Welt No access Pages 47 - 64
Die Entwicklung der Technik als Phase der Wandlung des Menschen No access Pages 65 - 80
Beginn und Aufstieg der Kybernetik No access Pages 81 - 94
Kybernetik als anthropologisches Problem No access Pages 95 - 116
Eine Art Gehirnmeterologie Die Bedeutung der neuen technischen Welt für Existenz und Vernunft – Zum Tode Norbert Wieners No access Pages 117 - 120
BücherschauMensch und Menschmaschine von Norbert Wiener No access Pages 121 - 122
Anhang No access Pages 123 - 124
Vorwort der Schriftleitung No access Pages 125 - 127
Quellennachweise No access Pages 128 - 128
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