Utopia and anti-utopia in modern times

By Krishan Kumar

Book Overview

This study focuses on the latest phase of the literary tradition of utopia, from the 19th century to the present, in Europe and America. It aims to show how modern versions of utopia and anti-utopia... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631148736
• ISBN13: 9780631148739
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

major work on utopian literature

This is the sort of work you finish reading and feel respect and a bit of envy for the author. It was an amazing accomplishment and should be a standard in utopian literature. Owing to a personal bias, I would have liked a bit more in-depth analysis of B.F. Skinner and Walden Two. Kumar lacks a behavior analyst's understanding of Skinner, but for this he can be fogiven. Kumar mixes up "negative reinforcement" with punishment, which is an unfortunate but common mistake with non-behaviorists. He is also very far behind the times in terms of the generalization and maintenance of behavior analytic programming. Nonetheless, truly an impressive work.