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"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." - James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond . . . From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain-the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power-has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. 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. In doing so, Simon conveys just how much the Faustian bargain shows us about power and evil . . . and ourselves.
Ed Simon editor in chief of literary journal Belt Magazine. A staff writer for LitHub, his essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Paris Review Daily, the New Republic, and the Washington Post. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his family.
Introduction: Appointment at Deptford Chapter 1: Simon Magus: Arch-Heretic, Supreme Necromancer Chapter 2: Christ in the Desert: Two Millennia of Lent Chapter 3: Of Saints and Succubi: Medieval Diabolical Contracts Chapter 4: Great Reckonings, Small Rooms: Searching for the Historical Faust Chapter 5: A Devil Too Many: Kit Marlowe and the Conjuring of Dr. Faust Chapter 6: Going Upstairs, Coming Downstairs: On Witches' Sabbaths and Black Masses Chapter 7: Faust Is an Artist: Christoph Haizmann and the Infernal Painting Chapter 8: A Romantic Hell: Goethe Saves Faust Chapter 9: Melodies of Damnation: Faust Is a Musician and Composer Chapter 10: Mephistopheles is American: Faustian Contracts in the United States Chapter 11: The Darkest of Arts: Totalitarianism in the Faustian Century Chapter 12: Mephistopheles in Hollywood: The Faustian Desires of Entertainment Chapter 13: The Destroyer of Worlds: Condemned to Apocalypse in the Faustocene
