Frankenstein

[The editors’s] expertise speaks to Frankenstein’s enduring message about existential stakes — and the potentially alarming societal consequences likely to devolve from the unfettered march of science and technology. Concerns about unintended consequences were urgent at the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the Nuclear Age, and they are, if anything, more urgent now.

The critical essays accompanying the text are eclectic, cross-disciplinary, and incisive….authoritative, yet accessible, and firmly situates both Shelley and her novel in relation to our contemporary tech-oriented age.

This newly annotated edition of the classic wrests the text from English majors and hands it to STEMers, but also brings the concerns of literature—moral weight, literary device, creativity—to readers at risk of underestimating their importance.

David Guston is Professor and Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, where he also serves as Codirector of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes..Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English.Jason Scott Robert is Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University.Jane Maienschein is Regents’ Professor and Parents Association Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Director of the Center of Biology and Society at Arizona State University.Alfred Nordmann is Professor of Philosophy at Technische Universit t Darmstadt and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.