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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... became another central aspect of alchemy , leading to important contribu- tions to medicine.2 Applying the Taoist principle of opposites , yin and yang , Chinese alchemists also regarded the primary substance as a necessary factor in ...
... became another central aspect of alchemy , leading to important contribu- tions to medicine.2 Applying the Taoist principle of opposites , yin and yang , Chinese alchemists also regarded the primary substance as a necessary factor in ...
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... became more serious , and the charges leveled against scientists changed also . In particular , those educated exclusively in the humanities and steeped in the literature of the past had little sympathy with a world - view that ...
... became more serious , and the charges leveled against scientists changed also . In particular , those educated exclusively in the humanities and steeped in the literature of the past had little sympathy with a world - view that ...
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... became the focus of popular debate and the cause of widespread anxiety as there emerged a general realization of the vastness of the universe . Astronomical scales of time and distance necessarily reduce human concerns and values to the ...
... became the focus of popular debate and the cause of widespread anxiety as there emerged a general realization of the vastness of the universe . Astronomical scales of time and distance necessarily reduce human concerns and values to the ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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