American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / Peter Swirski.
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| Superior document: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 255 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.