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- Book Title
- Forbidden Knowledge : from Prometheus to Pornography
- Publication Name
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Title
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Subtitle
- From Prometheus to Pornography
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0156005514
- EAN
- 9780156005517
- ISBN
- 9780156005517
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Juvenile Fiction, Philosophy
- Topic
- Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Social History, General
- Release Year
- 1997
- Release Date
- 15/09/1997
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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In his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to biotechnology research. Index.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156005514
ISBN-13
9780156005517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
925321
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forbidden Knowledge : from Prometheus to Pornography
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Social History, General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
History, Social Science, Juvenile Fiction, Philosophy
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn56.K64s43 1997
Reviews
An eminent scholar's exploration of a crucial theme in Western literature and culture: forbidden knowledge. Shattuck (Literature/Boston Univ.) has published many books, including a well-known study of modernism (The Banquet Years, 1968) and a biography (Marcel Proust, 1982) that earned its author the National Book Award. His new book embodies his vision of what literary criticism ought to be (as opposed to current academic trends in literary studies). First, its theme is one of importance to people other than professional literary critics. Second, its language is urbane and engaging. Third, Shattuck writes with originality and imagination yet remains loyal to scholarly standards of evidence and argument. The book traces the problem of forbidden knowledge from its origins in myth and folklore (Prometheus, Pandora, Eve, and Faustus) up through the more modern attempt to deal with its meaning for our moral well-being. He has especially strong chapters on Milton's Paradise Lost, which he sees as a turning point in our understanding of the theme, and Melville's Billy Budd, which he praises by damning comparison with Camus's The Stranger. He also writes about Frankenstein, Emily Dickinson, Mme. de Lafayette. The latter two share the theme of renunciation, the obverse side of the forbidden knowledge topos. The second half of Shattuck's book attempts to negotiate the treacherous pass from literature to real life: Forbidden knowledge as literary theme is supposed to shed light on the moral dilemmas of scientists who worked on the atomic bomb and those who remain at work on the Human Genome Project. Here he is less persuasive. But as a consolation prize we get a wonderfully impassioned chapter against the Marquis de Sade who, according to Shattuck, does not deserve the serious attention that scholars have showered on him. A fine, challenging, and timely work of scholarship and criticism., An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost , Goethe's Faust , and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised by mankind's tendency to search for dangerous knowledge. He contrasts J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance of guilt for the atomic bombings with Edward Teller's dismissal of the same. In his own field of literary criticism he argues against the neutral analysis of immoral works as "pure literature," illustrating his point with a critique of the Marquis de Sade. Forbidden Knowledge is a stimulating and forceful intellectual argument against moral relativism, as well as a practical approach to difficult ethical problems, from genetic engineering to pornography.
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
97-021658
Dewey Decimal
809/.9338
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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