『Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize』

Sean B. Carroll

(2013年刊行,Crown Publishers, New York, x+582 pp., ISBN:9780307952332 [hbk] → 版元ページ

分子生物学者ジャック・モノーと文学者アルベール・カミュ第二次世界大戦中の対独レジスタンス運動を通じて交流を深めていった経緯が綴られている.この伝記を書いた著者は進化発生学の研究者として有名で:ショーン・B・キャロル(渡辺政隆・経塚淳子訳)『シマウマの縞 蝶の模様:エボデボ革命が解き明かす生物デザインの起源』(2007年4月30日刊行, 光文社,16 color plates + 405 pp., ISBN:9784334961978書評目次版元ページ著者サイト)の著者でもある.

【目次】
Prologue: Chance, Necessity, and Genius 1

I. The Fall

Chapter 1. City of Light 17
Chapter 2. Plans 28
Chapter 3. Misadventures in Norway 46
Chapter 4. Springtime for Hitler 57
Chapter 5. Defeated and Divided 81

II. The Long Road to Freedom

Chapter 6. Regrouping 99
Chapter 7. Ill Winds 106
Chapter 8. An Hour of Hope 116
Chapter 9. Waiting and Working 132
Chapter 10. The Terror Begins 141
Chapter 11. The Plague 154
Chapter 12. Brothers in Arms 163
Chapter 13. Double Lives 177
Chapter 14. Preparations 197
Chapter 15. Normandy 211
Chapter 16. Les Jours de Gloire 227

III. Secrets of Life

Chapter 17. The Talk of the Nation 253
Chapter 18. Secrets of Life 262
Chapter 19. Bourgeois Genetics 275
Chapter 20. On the Same Path 290
Chapter 21. A New Beginning 297
Chapter 22. Rebels with a Cause 307
Chapter 23. Talking Sides 314
Chapter 24. The Attic 324

IV. Nobel Thoughts and Noble Deeds

Chapter 25. The Blood of the Hungarians 337
Chapter 26. Repression and Reaction 355
Chapter 27. A Voice of Reason 371
Chapter 28. The Logic of Life 387
Chapter 29. Making Connections 404
Chapter 30. The Possible and the Actual 416
Chapter 31. Unfinished 429
Chapter 32. Messengers 440
Chapter 33. Synthesis 455

Epilogue: French Lessons

Chapter 34. Camus in a Lab Coat 467
Chapter 35. Chance and Necessity: Sisyphus Returns 482


Appendix: The Science 498
Acknowledgments 505
Notes 509
Bibliography 559
Index 568
Permissions 582