Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by Roger Shattuck

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

Roger Shattuck

384 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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