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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... concerned only with the mathematical results . By con- trast , the children , whose values are always , for the Romantics , a better guide to Truth , are concerned chiefly for the suffering of the bird.38 Percy Bysshe Shelley , although ...
... concerned only with the mathematical results . By con- trast , the children , whose values are always , for the Romantics , a better guide to Truth , are concerned chiefly for the suffering of the bird.38 Percy Bysshe Shelley , although ...
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... concerned primarily with the effect on society of robots designed to relieve their masters of toil and leave them free to enjoy endless leisure . ( The word robot comes from the Czech word robota , compulsory work or drudg- ery . ) It ...
... concerned primarily with the effect on society of robots designed to relieve their masters of toil and leave them free to enjoy endless leisure . ( The word robot comes from the Czech word robota , compulsory work or drudg- ery . ) It ...
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... concern of the physi- cists , the consequences are the concern of all " ; " What concerns everyone , only everyone can ... concerned to examine the question of the powerlessness of scientists in a more problematic case : the seemingly ...
... concern of the physi- cists , the consequences are the concern of all " ; " What concerns everyone , only everyone can ... concerned to examine the question of the powerlessness of scientists in a more problematic case : the seemingly ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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