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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... political campaign being waged by many contemporary scientists ( including Wells's own hero , T. H. Huxley ) who exploited the threat , both economic and military , posed by a technologically superior Germany in order to gain political ...
... political campaign being waged by many contemporary scientists ( including Wells's own hero , T. H. Huxley ) who exploited the threat , both economic and military , posed by a technologically superior Germany in order to gain political ...
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... political commitment as the only responsible action , just as Einstein had taken a political position and recommended the construction of the atomic bomb . Eisler argues : " We cannot escape our responsibilities . We are providing ...
... political commitment as the only responsible action , just as Einstein had taken a political position and recommended the construction of the atomic bomb . Eisler argues : " We cannot escape our responsibilities . We are providing ...
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... political machinations of governments during the cold war . Caught between two extremes , repre- sented on the one hand by the political expediency of his British superior , who tells him that science must serve political ends ...
... political machinations of governments during the cold war . Caught between two extremes , repre- sented on the one hand by the political expediency of his British superior , who tells him that science must serve political ends ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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