Swirski Peter - American Utopia Literature Society And The Human Use Of Human Beings - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From 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 deaggressing humanity American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outr utopias by Thomas M. Disch Bernard Malamud Kurt Vonnegut and Margaret Atwood the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Whence the seeds of social discontent? Whence our taste for egoism and altruism? For waging war and waging peace? Can we bioengineer human nature to specifications? Should we? Who makes better guardians: humans or machines? And who will guard the guardians?
Title: American Utopia Literature Society And The Human Use Of Human Beings
Author(s): Swirski Peter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367144340
Pages: 242 Pages, 3 Line Drawings, Black And White; 14 Halftones, Black And White; 17 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 7/23/2019
Category: Sociology