
The Sin of Knowledge
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Each myth is shown to capture the anxiety of a society when faced with new knowledge that challenges traditional values. Ziolkowski's examples of recent appropriations of the myths are especially provocative. From Voltaire to the present, the Fall of Adam has provided an image for the emergence from childhood innocence into the consciousness of maturity. Prometheus, as the challenger of authority and the initiator of technological evil, yielded an ambivalent model for the socialist imagination of the German Democratic Republic. And finally, an America unsettled by its responsibility for the atomic bomb, and worrying that in its postwar prosperity it had betrayed its values, recognized in Faust the disturbing image of its soul.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Prelude: The Timeless Topicality of Myth
- Part One: Ancient Themes
- Chapter One: Adam: The Genesis of Consciousness
- The Biblical Fall
- Near Eastern Sources
- The Paradox of Knowledge in Solomon's Jerusalem
- Chapter Two: Prometheus: The Birth of Civilization
- Hesiod's Trickster
- Aeschylus's Culture-Hero
- From Boeotia to Athens
- Chapter Three: Faust: The Ambivalence of Knowledge
- The Historical Faust
- The Growth of the Legend
- The Chapbook Speculator
- Marlowe's Power Seeker
- Interlude: From Myth to Modernity
- Part Two: Modern Variations
- Chapter Four: The Secularization of Adam
- Candide's Fall
- The Typological Impulse
- Romantic Tragicomic Falls
- American Ambiguities
- Modem Ironies
- Chapter Five: The Proletarianization of Prometheus
- From Myth to Marx
- Modern Metaphors
- Marxist Myths
- GDR Ambiguities
- Three Major Re-Visions
- The Enemy of the People
- Chapter Six: The Americanization of Faust
- Modernizations of the Myth
- Faust and the Bomb
- Playful Fausts of the Fifties
- A Blue-Collar Faust
- Professorial Fausts
- Fausts of Politics and Poetry
- Fausts for the Nineties
- Postlude: On the Uses and Abuses of Myth
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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