The Perversion Of Knowledge
Title | The Perversion Of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Vadim J. Birstein |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2009-09-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 078675186X |
During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author's firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko's pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author's own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.
Cruising the Library
Title | Cruising the Library PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Adler |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0823276376 |
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.
Candor and Perversion
Title | Candor and Perversion PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Shattuck |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 856 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780393321111 |
...he is an expert at intellectual and moral triage, sorting patiently through the tangle of mixed motives that make for art, admiring the candor, admonishing the perversion.
Perversion
Title | Perversion PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie S. Swales |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0415501288 |
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Key of Knowledge to the Holy Scriptures
Title | The Key of Knowledge to the Holy Scriptures PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Goyder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 1838 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |
Forbidden Knowledge
Title | Forbidden Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Shattuck |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780156005517 |
A riveting account of the ways in which man's darkest impulses conflict with common sense. From the lessons learned in "Paradise Lost" and the events which transpired in the tales of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein" to unlocking the secrets of the atom, Shattuck's brilliant synthesis of history and literature is utterly relevant to our times and addictively readable.
Psychosophy
Title | Psychosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Cora L. V. Scott Richmond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Spiritualism |
ISBN |