He is the author of ten acclaimed books in. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, the book interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. Peter Swirski is Research Director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Professor of American Literature and Culture at UMSL. Interrogating the assumptions behind four outr utopias by Thomas M. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Swirski, Peter, 1963 American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political. As such he documents the manifold ways in. From 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 deaggressing humanity, American Utopia maps the pitfalls and windfalls of social reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers.
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