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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... technological materialism , suggesting that he had come to realize the sinister potential of the obsession with technological power . 12 In Topsy Turvy ( 1889 ) Barbicane , Maston , and the rest of the group in From the Earth to the ...
... technological materialism , suggesting that he had come to realize the sinister potential of the obsession with technological power . 12 In Topsy Turvy ( 1889 ) Barbicane , Maston , and the rest of the group in From the Earth to the ...
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... technological progress in the service of mankind , are never tempted to use their power for selfish or evil ends , because the interest of the writers is in social theory rather than psychological exploration . Their simple didactic ...
... technological progress in the service of mankind , are never tempted to use their power for selfish or evil ends , because the interest of the writers is in social theory rather than psychological exploration . Their simple didactic ...
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... technologically superior Germany in order to gain political influence and research funding.47 per- A year later , in The Food of the Gods ( 1904 ) , technological change , sym- bolized as " bigness , " is represented as not merely ...
... technologically superior Germany in order to gain political influence and research funding.47 per- A year later , in The Food of the Gods ( 1904 ) , technological change , sym- bolized as " bigness , " is represented as not merely ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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