Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to PornographyHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 - 369 Seiten "Hailed from coast to coast as an extraordinary and provocative work and compared with the best of Harold Bloom, Joseph Campbell, and Lewis Thomas, Forbidden Knowledge explores two of today's most important moral issues: the explosion of scientific knowledge and the problem of pornography as represented by the recent rehabilitation of the Marquis de Sade. In a compelling synthesis of history and literature, Shattuck challenges the meaning of moral responsibility in our daily life, providing a landmark history of Western culture that will dazzle the reader."--Cover. |
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Inhalt
FOREWORD | 1 |
THE FAR SIDE OF CURIOSITY | 13 |
From Taboo to Science | 27 |
Skepticism Agnosticism Ignorabimus | 33 |
Lust of the Soul | 44 |
Miltons Version | 55 |
Of knowledge within bounds | 62 |
The Downward Path to Wisdom | 71 |
Knowledge as Interference | 159 |
TAKING STOCK | 165 |
SCIENCE | 173 |
Five Cases | 183 |
The Condition of Ambivalence | 217 |
THE DIVINE MARQUIS | 227 |
Rehabilitating a Prophet | 236 |
The Moors Murders Case | 256 |
FAUST AND FRANKENSTEIN | 77 |
Scenes from Faust | 86 |
Scenes from Frankenstein | 93 |
The Principle of Excess | 100 |
MME | 109 |
Aestheticism in Emily Dickinson | 121 |
An Epicurean at The Banquet of Abstemiousness | 131 |
GUILT JUSTICE AND EMPATHY | 137 |
Comparing Two Specimens | 144 |
Understanding Blaming Forgiving Pardoning | 151 |
A Closer Walk with Sade | 268 |
Must We Burn Sade? | 283 |
Truth in Labeling | 290 |
THE SPHINX AND THE UNICORN | 301 |
The Veil of Ignorance and the Flame of Experience | 313 |
SIX CATEGORIES OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE | 327 |
THE SPHINX BY FRANCIS BACON | 343 |
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