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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history
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American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history [electronic resource] / Peter Swirski.
ISBN
9780415891929 (hbk.)
0203816617 (master e-book)
9780203816615 (e-book)
Published
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 255 p. : ill.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2019
Series
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution
How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two
You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest
You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace
We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome
It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America.
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