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Book World: The shadowy spirits that helped scientists advance their ideas
Jess Keiser, The Washington Post
Dec. 24, 2020
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Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
By Jimena Canales
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A demon was present at the birth of science.
Writing in the mid-17th century, the French philosopher René Descartes realized that in order to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last, he first needed to lash himself to a single point of certainty in a roiling sea of doubt.
To test the strength of his position, Descartes imagined the workings of an evil entity - a malignum genium, or evil genius - capable of creating an entirely illusory but completely convincing artificial world. Someone ensnared by Descartes malevolent being is bound to question external reality - and even their own body - since, theoretically, the sky s color or the warmth of one s skin could be deceptions devised by this demon.
What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times?
Delving into European history and thought and music by such greats as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics through storylines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. This is an engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics, says a review on the Princeton University Press website.
“This subtly insightful book helps readers experience these timeless masterpieces anew,” says Andrew Moravcsik from the Foreign Affairs magazine. “The Politics of Opera . . . has boldly placed Machiavelli and early modern political theory at the center of the early history of opera,” says Larry Wolff in New York Review of Books.
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…“Perplexed” was a common reaction. Rowling had never been a particularly controversial figure. Her books sold hundreds of millions of copies, they inspired films that brought in billions of dollars, and she used the money she made to save children from orphanages. In 2012, she gave enough to charity and paid enough in taxes to knock herself off the
Forbes billionaires list. In 2020, she was tweeting links to a store that sold pins that said F CK YOUR PRONOUNS.
Read another way, though, the latest turn in Rowling’s story looks perhaps less perplexing than inevitable. It is the culmination of a two-decade power struggle for ownership of her fictional world the right to say what Harry Potter means. The Harry Potter books describe a stark moral universe: Their heroes fight on behalf of all that is good to defeat the forces of absolute evil. Though the struggle may be lonely and hard, right ultimately beats wrong. For fans, when it came to the matter of trans rights, the m
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