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Adam's Apple
Dante Cantrill
其他書名
The Struggle Against Ourselves to Know
出版P. Lang, 1994
主題History / GeneralHistory / WorldHistory / CivilizationHistory / Social HistoryPhilosophy / General
ISBN08204244049780820424408
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NghmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.