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American Utopia
- Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings
Engelsk Paperback

American Utopia

- Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings
Engelsk Paperback

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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 outré 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?

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780367144340
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0367144344
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Udg. Dato:
23 jul 2019
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
23 jul 2019
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