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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... accepted by the Allies as a necessary means of ending the horrors of war , was soon to be reassessed by writers who perceived that such weapons represented not an end but a beginning . One of the earliest treatments of this theme was ...
... accepted by the Allies as a necessary means of ending the horrors of war , was soon to be reassessed by writers who perceived that such weapons represented not an end but a beginning . One of the earliest treatments of this theme was ...
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... accepted as inevitable in the physical sciences , such an approach in biology was censured not only on the Romantic grounds that it led to emotional retardation on the part of the scientist but because it was believed to en- gender a ...
... accepted as inevitable in the physical sciences , such an approach in biology was censured not only on the Romantic grounds that it led to emotional retardation on the part of the scientist but because it was believed to en- gender a ...
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... acceptance of the scientist who sacrifices everything and everyone to the cause of research . The contrary view , namely ... accepted formulations and theories ; he insists on openness and pub- lication rather than secrecy in research ...
... acceptance of the scientist who sacrifices everything and everyone to the cause of research . The contrary view , namely ... accepted formulations and theories ; he insists on openness and pub- lication rather than secrecy in research ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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