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Institutional crisis: state and scholar in Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.(Critical essay)
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Extrapolation
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March 22, 2008
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"I am Shiva, the Destroyer of Words"
The above epigraph from the Bhagavad Gita was mouthed in 1945 not by a raving Nazi propagandist holed up in a Berlin bunker, nor by a corn-cob-pipe smoking Allied general wading ashore on a Pacific island. Rather, the speaker of these words was a university professor--Robert Oppenheimer. In August of 1945, shortly after the destruction of Hiroshima, Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on humanity. Oppenheimer's exclamation marks a sea change of sorts in the relationship between knowledge and power. Although academic knowledge and political puissance have always been stranger bedfellows, ...
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