Ana Sobral Mourão: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2018 |
| Name | Ms Ana Sobral Mourão |
| Address | Englisches Seminar Plattenstrasse 47 PLH - 208 8032 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | 0446343681 |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0365-04L | Experiments, Explorations, Exploitation: Literature and The Ethics of Science | 3 credits | 2S | A. Sobral Mourão, M. Mühlheim | |
| Abstract | From New Atlantis (1627) to the cyber-utopianism of recent decades, the hope that technology might deliver mankind from evil has been a driving force of scientific inquiry. In this course, we will discuss utopian texts, classics of sci-fi (e.g. Frankenstein) and more recent works to gain an understanding of how literature explores the ethical dilemmas posed by the quest for scientific knowledge. | ||||
| Learning objective | At the end of the course, students can: - outline some of the historical developments in Anglophone literary discourses about science (e.g. early modern vs. Romantic anxieties); - explain why arguments concerning literary texts must take into account matters of content as well as style and literary form; - debate the relevance (and the limits) of literary art for questions of ethics in science. | ||||
| Literature | The primary texts will be made available on ILIAS: https://ilias-app2.let.ethz.ch/goto.php?target=crs_156974&client_id=ilias_lda | ||||