American utopia : literature, society, and the human use of human beings / Peter Swirski.
"From the 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 p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Summary: | "From the 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 de-aggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of prosocial reform in the name of the human use of human beings"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429032004 0429032005 9780429629778 042962977X 9780429626494 0429626495 9780429628139 0429628137 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |