Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
Roger Shattuck
384 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0156005514
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Language: English
Publish: 874306800000
CulturalHistoryLiterary CriticismLiteratureNonfictionPhilosophyPsychologyScienceSexualitySociology
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.