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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 832.912
EAN: 9780802130594
ISBN: 0802130593
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: January 11, 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
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Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. This version of the play is the famous one that was brought to completion by Brecht himself, working with Charles Laughton, who played Galileo in the first two American productions (Hollywood and New York, 1947). Since then the play has become a classic in the world repertoire. "The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht's great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo." - Harold Clurman; "Thoughtful and profoundly sensitive." - Newsweek.
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Recently, the American Psychological Association discovered, to its general embarrassment, that a good number its members had collaborated with Pentagon- and CIA-sponsored torturers--or practitioners of "enhanced interrogation." The psychologists had provided expert advice about levels of endurance, psychological techniques for cracking resistance, and so on.
To its credit, the APA formally condemned such collaboration. But the whole sordid incident reminds us (as if we need reminding) ... Read More
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This book shows the scientific insights of Galileo and his stand againt the religious authorities, along with his collapse in the face of personal threat.
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The pressures that the established order can bring to bear on those who want to move outside the status quo are enormous. In the end those in charge can grind down the best of men with the most worthy knowledge to disseminate. That is the story that the master communist playwright Bertolt Brecht brings here about the pressures to recant brought on Galileo by the Catholic Church in the 1500's. And for what crime? For merely bringing out facts about the nature of the world and its place in the universe ... Read More
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Galileo is presented from the time of his first findings with which Mother Church took offense until twenty years after his recantation. While the play mainly focuses on Galileo and how his own views toward his work affect him and those around him, we're not allowed to go away without understanding how those views also affected the Italian society around him; as with all things, the subversion to be found in Galileo's discovery that the Earth revolves around the Sun instead of vice-versa seeps into the ... Read More
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So maybe it's not completely accurate. I just read this book for a class I have to take. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It wasn't the dry, boring piece of literature I had expected. It's really a book to read - maybe not multiple times, but at least once. It has an important message, and is presented in a reasonably interesting way.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 832.912
EAN: 9780802130594
ISBN: 0802130593
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: January 11, 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press