Frankenstein vs. Today's Newspaper · 7:43pm Mar 26th, 2020
I'm listening to "Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind", a 2007 lecture series by Eric Rabkin about fantasy and science fiction. In lecture 14, "Frankenstein", he said the story is a warning against "science in the hands of an egotist, alienated from the restraining wisdom of community". He closed the lecture by saying, "To test the relevance of this admonition,