How Long to Read American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

How Long Does it Take to Read American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History by Peter Swirski

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Description

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 insist 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 and Walden Two (1948), easily the most scandalous utopia of the century, if not of all times; Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), an anatomy of political disfranchisement American-style; Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace (1982), a neo-Darwinian beast fable about morality in the thermonuclear age; Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome (1986), a diagnostic novel about engineering violence out of America’s streets and minds; and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004), an alternative history of homegrown ‘soft’ fascism. With the help of the five novels and the social models outlined therein, Peter Swirski interrogates key aspects of sociobiology and behavioural psychology, voting and referenda procedures, morality and altruism, multilevel selection and proverbial wisdom, violence and chip-implant technology, and the adaptive role of emotions in our private and public lives.

How long is American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History?

American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History by Peter Swirski is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History aloud.

What Reading Level is American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History?

American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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