Getting Nowhere

by Peter S Hawkins

Through an insightful, literary treatment of various utopian visions, Peter Hawkins examines the human urge for widespread happiness, while pondering our consistent failure to produce it. Hawkins draws from biblical notions of paradise, Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Bellamy, Orwell, Le Corbusier, B. F. Skinner, and Walker Percy, locating in each the usefulness and accountability of the Utopian impulse. Utopias function most effectively as fictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149829250X
• ISBN13: 9781498292504
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"