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Virtual realities Roslynn D. Haynes, From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. ix+417. ISBN 0-8018-4801-6, £16.50. George Levine (ed.), Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature and Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Pp. xiii+330. ISBN 0-229-13630-2, £40.00 (hardback); 0-229-13634-5, £19.00 (paperback). Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Pp. 347. ISBN 0-297-81514-8. No price given.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1997

G. S. Rousseau
G. S. Rousseau
Affiliation:
Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UG
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Abstract

Despite the alarming drop in numbers of students studying science throughout the Western world today there is no more important subject in our time than science broadly construed, and these three books provide some of the reasons. Their diversity indicates the shape of the debates occurring about the scientist in Western culture, science's tortured philosophical realism and representation as troubled categories, and, most predictably, life on the screen in the age of the Internet.

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ESSAY REVIEW
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 227 - 232
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1997 British Society for the History of Science

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