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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... discovery , refusing to think about the social consequences of his work , but unlike most of the proponents of " value - free " science , he is gradually converted to a sense of social responsibility . His final position is unusual for ...
... discovery , refusing to think about the social consequences of his work , but unlike most of the proponents of " value - free " science , he is gradually converted to a sense of social responsibility . His final position is unusual for ...
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... discovery and the responsibility for the consequences of that discovery . If Bluthgeld invented the atomic bomb , he is responsible , as he himself believes , for the 1972 fallout and for the imminent Third World War ; whether the ...
... discovery and the responsibility for the consequences of that discovery . If Bluthgeld invented the atomic bomb , he is responsible , as he himself believes , for the 1972 fallout and for the imminent Third World War ; whether the ...
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... discovery of a synthetic food whereby entire populations can be fed without the need for arable land or even sunshine . This discovery immediately becomes a politi- cal weapon that the women seek to keep for themselves ( even lip ...
... discovery of a synthetic food whereby entire populations can be fed without the need for arable land or even sunshine . This discovery immediately becomes a politi- cal weapon that the women seek to keep for themselves ( even lip ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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