Title
American utopia : literature, society, and the human use of human beings / Peter Swirski.
ISBN
9780429629778 (electronic book)
042962977X (electronic book)
9780429628139 (electronic book)
0429628137 (electronic book)
9780429032004 (electronic book)
0429032005
9780367144272
9780367144340
Published
New York : Routledge, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4324/9780429032004 doi
Call Number
PS374.U8 .S955 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.608
Summary
"From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner's Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene engineering, from the pretzel logic of meritocracy to de-aggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of prosocial reform in the name of the human use of human beings"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
What if you could?
Little commonwealth
Defense of poetry
Enter the chameleon
East 11th Street
The shape of things to come
Earth abides
You tell me that it's evolution
Proverbial wisdom
The islands of the day before
Do the chronomotion with me
The imp of the perverse
Oryx and crick
The advocate's devil
Talkin 'bout my gene-ration.
