num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
titlecomplete: Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
characters: Adam (Bible), Eve, Marquis de Sade
genres: Philosophy, Cultural, Science, Sexuality, Literature, Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 492
publisher: Harper Paperbacks