Scientists as prophets a rhetorical genealogy / Lynda Walsh.

By:

Walsh, Lynda, 1971- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199857104

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

Q175 .S354 2013

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Contents:

The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	Q175.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn854585604

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy -- The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions.

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