TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guthke,Karl S.
AU  - Atkins,Helen
TI  - The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction 
SN  - 9781501745874
AV  - Q125 .G96513 1990
U1  - 509 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Fiction & Short Stories
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Translator's Note --; 1. Introduction: "Are We Alone?" --; 2. The Renaissance: Science Falls from Grace --; 3. The Baroque Period: Between Heresy and Piety --; 4. The Enlightenment: Man as "the Measure of All Things"? --; 5. Modern Times: Man and Superman-The Origin of Species in the Cosmos --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745874
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ER  -