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Forbidden Knowledge - Roger Shattuck

Written by Roger Shattuck

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

In this daring and scintillating work, one of America’s most renowned critics and scholars traces the arc of Western literature and culture, exploring the notion of forbidden knowledge - from the origins of sacredness to its modern corruption, from the sexual innocence of Adam and Eve to the sexual excesses of the Marquis de Sade, and beyond.

Forbidden Knowledge not only examines the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and in our everyday lives, but suggests that we live in a violated world that dismisses taboos and fails to heed the wisdom of that which is sacred.

Mr. Shattuck’s dire portrait of human presumption - in setting aside all limits in the quest for knowledge and experience - is matched only by his faith that we can understand our grievous loss of innocence by reexamining our greatest myths and stories of the last 2,000 years.

He deftly traces our demise through such stories as Prometheus, who stole Zeus’s fire, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Melville’s Billy Budd, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade’s pornographic writings. Forbidden Knowledge is the culminating work of Roger Shattuck’s career as one of America’s most gifted and original thinkers.

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