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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... success of Newton's Principia at both a practical and a theoretical level was also instrumental in propelling Western culture towards the scien- tism that has largely characterized it ever since . On the one hand , Newton's mechanistic ...
... success of Newton's Principia at both a practical and a theoretical level was also instrumental in propelling Western culture towards the scien- tism that has largely characterized it ever since . On the one hand , Newton's mechanistic ...
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... success of Frankenstein's experiment . In scientific terms , the creation of the Monster is a brilliant achievement ; yet Frankenstein's horror begins at the precise moment when the creature opens its eye , the moment when for the first ...
... success of Frankenstein's experiment . In scientific terms , the creation of the Monster is a brilliant achievement ; yet Frankenstein's horror begins at the precise moment when the creature opens its eye , the moment when for the first ...
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... success of Verne and others in making scientific ruthlessness acceptable in a dangerous situation , defusing it by an element of noninjurious comedy , was to have dangerous cultural repercussions . It impeded a critical appraisal of the ...
... success of Verne and others in making scientific ruthlessness acceptable in a dangerous situation , defusing it by an element of noninjurious comedy , was to have dangerous cultural repercussions . It impeded a critical appraisal of the ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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