This new, remarkable annotated edition of Frankenstein with its accompanying essays brings the 'modern Prometheus' flawlessly into our century in a manner sure to inspire scientists and nonscientists in a conversation that Shelley herself might not have foreseen but surely would have encouraged. -- Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor, founding head of the Division of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, New York University This wonderful new edition is a happy addition to the critical literature examining the meaning of the tale for our twenty-first-century commitments to heroic science, engineering, and technology. -- Rachelle D. Hollander, Director, Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, National Academy of Engineering The Promethean tale of Frankenstein is a rich source of questions about the price that scientists and the public pay for knowledge. This annotated edition rescues the classic allegory from popular culture's caricature and presents it with a framework for exploring the questions raised. Among the many questions, perhaps the most important is, when scientists either from amoral arrogance or negligent lack of foresight present a discovery society is not prepared to deal with -- nuclear weapons, engineered gene lines, climate modification -- what is the scientists' responsibility going forward? Is it merely to watch in horror as the knowledge is unleashed on society? -- Rush D. Holt, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals
David Guston is Professor and Founding Director of the School for
the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University,
where he also serves as Codirector of the Consortium for Science,
Policy, and Outcomes..
Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the
Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant
Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media,
and Engineering and the Department of English.
Jason Scott Robert is Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Associate Professor
in the School of Life Sciences, and Director of the Lincoln Center
for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University.
Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor and Parents Association
Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Director of the Center
of Biology and Society at Arizona State University.
Alfred Nordmann is Professor of Philosophy at Technische Universit
t Darmstadt and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University
of South Carolina.
[The editors's] expertise speaks to Frankenstein's enduring message
about existential stakes — and the potentially alarming societal
consequences likely to devolve from the unfettered march of science
and technology. Concerns about unintended consequences were urgent
at the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the Nuclear Age, and
they are, if anything, more urgent now.—Los Angeles Review of
Books
The critical essays accompanying the text are eclectic,
cross-disciplinary, and incisive....authoritative, yet accessible,
and firmly situates both Shelley and her novel in relation to our
contemporary tech-oriented age.—Lawfare
This newly annotated edition of the classic wrests the text from
English majors and hands it to STEMers, but also brings the
concerns of literature—moral weight, literary device, creativity—to
readers at risk of underestimating their importance.—Atlas Obscura
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