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  1. American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history
    Autor*in: Swirski, Peter
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Routledge, New York

    The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of... mehr

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    The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism.American Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the political promises behind the socia

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283151006; 9780415891929; 9781136723391; 9781283151009
    Schriftenreihe: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15
    Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature Ser.
    Schlagworte: National characteristics, American, in literature; Exceptionalism; Social engineering; Political culture; Literature and society; Politics and literature; Utopias in literature; Political fiction, American; Social control in literature; American fiction; Exceptionalism - United States; Electronic books
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (xiii, 255 p), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Front Cover; American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Life Is More Important Than Art or Social Engineering, Eutopia, and Evolution; 1. How I Stopped Worrying and Loved BehaviouralEngineering or Communal Life, Adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden Two; 2. You're Not in Canada until You Can Hear the LoonsCrying or Voting, People's Power, and Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

    3. You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me or Altruism, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's Grace4. We Better Kill the Instinct to Kill Before It Kills Us or Violence, Mind Control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome; 5. It Can't Happen Here or Politics, Emotions, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America; Notes; Bibliography; Index