Adam's apple: the struggle against ourselves to know
Adam's Apple is a study of a theme in Western intellectual history. Through a metaphor, it traces the idea over the past three centuries that increased knowledge is somehow both a gain and a loss, a path to enlightenment and, simultaneously, the road to tragedy. Each chapter has a discrete topi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Adam's Apple is a study of a theme in Western intellectual history. Through a metaphor, it traces the idea over the past three centuries that increased knowledge is somehow both a gain and a loss, a path to enlightenment and, simultaneously, the road to tragedy. Each chapter has a discrete topic, ranging from Malthusian economics to American nature writing, as the whole works toward a complex interweaving of major motifs about an increasingly scientific world Together, they reflect humanity's anxieties over its efforts to improve itself by acquiring knowledge |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 237 S. |
| ISBN: | 0820424404 |
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