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

by Peter Swirski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415891922
• ISBN13: 9780415891929
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"