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American Utopia - Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings (Hardcover)
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American Utopia - Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings (Hardcover)
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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 outre 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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