From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western LiteratureJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 417 páginas They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. |
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... Robert Oppenheimer , whose private fears about the increasing hold by the military over the products of research in atomic physics did not prevent his public expression of delight in the H - bomb as " technically so sweet that you could ...
... Robert Oppenheimer , whose private fears about the increasing hold by the military over the products of research in atomic physics did not prevent his public expression of delight in the H - bomb as " technically so sweet that you could ...
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... Robert Oppenheimer : Transcript of Hearing before Per- sonnel Security Board and Text of Principal Documents and Letters ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1971 ) , lx . 27. Heinrich Schirmbeck , Ärgert dich dein rechtes Auge , translated as The ...
... Robert Oppenheimer : Transcript of Hearing before Per- sonnel Security Board and Text of Principal Documents and Letters ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1971 ) , lx . 27. Heinrich Schirmbeck , Ärgert dich dein rechtes Auge , translated as The ...
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... Robert Oppenheimer , " Süddeutsche Zeitung , 15 Dec. 1964 , 12 ) . 39. Kipphardt does not make clear in the play that at least two petitions were drawn up by scientists working on the bomb projects urging that the bomb not be deployed ...
... Robert Oppenheimer , " Süddeutsche Zeitung , 15 Dec. 1964 , 12 ) . 39. Kipphardt does not make clear in the play that at least two petitions were drawn up by scientists working on the bomb projects urging that the bomb not be deployed ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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