Cantrill, Dante
Adam's Apple

The Struggle against Ourselves to Know.

Cantrill provides 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. XVII,237 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series V: Philosophy; vol. 161/Peter Lang Verlag 1994) Mängelexemplar