Forbidden Knowledge - From Promethe Pornography (1996)

Title: Forbidden Knowledge - From Prometheus to Pornography
Author: Roger Shattuck
Category:Academic/Religion/History
Series: Harvest Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1st edition (September 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156005514 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0156005517 (paperback)

Promotional info/Publisher's summary - "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."

Review:
"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." -Amazon

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