Forbidden Knowledge From Prometheus to Pornography

Roger Shattuck, "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography"
English | ISBN: 0156005514 | | 384 pages | PDF | 1282 KB
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.