did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

9780415891929

American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780415891929

  • ISBN10:

    0415891922

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-04-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

List Price: $155.00 Save up to $115.40
  • Rent Book $104.63
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

How To: Textbook Rental

Looking to rent a book? Rent American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History [ISBN: 9780415891929] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Swirski; Peter. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

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 insists 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 social policies and political events of the period. These interdisciplinary concerns provide, in turn, the framework for the analyses of works of American literature that mirror their times and mores.Novels considered include B.F. Skinner's Walden Two, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Bernard Malamud's God's Grace , Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome , and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America . Chapters include analyses of aspects of evolution and behavioral psychology, medicine and pharmacology, voting systems, parliamentary and referenda procedures, altruism, multi-level selection, chip-implant technology, and mirror neurons, yet are balanced by archival research that enriches the literary and historical context of the study.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program