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22/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Ed Simon
Publisher:
Melville House
Date:
July 9, 2024
Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues, and illustrates how the impulse to sacrifice our principles in exchange for power is present in all kinds of social ills, from colonialism to nuclear warfare, from social media to climate change to AI, and beyond.
What The Reviewers Say
These highly charged and politicized arguments about the evils of late capitalism transform Devil’s Contract from a work of cultural history into something close to a polemic, one with which you may or may not agree. Simon’s style, moreover, can sometimes veer into the over-emphatic.
Provocative, if clunky.
One might wish for it to be expressed through slightly less heated rhetoric and a more limited focus.
Lively.
