Ameritopia : the unmaking of America
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
320.973/LEVIN,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Threshold Editions, [2012]
©2012
©2012
EDITION
First Threshold Editions hbk. edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781439173244 (hbk.), 1439173249 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- Part I. On utopianism. The tyranny of utopia ; Plato's Republic and the perfect society ; Thomas More's Utopia and radical egalitarianism ; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all-powerful state ; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and the class struggle -- Part II. On Americanism. John Locke and the nature of man ; The influence of Locke on the founders ; Charles de Montesquieu and republican government ; The influence of Montesquieu on the framers ; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America -- Part III. On utopianism and Americanism. Post-constitutional America ; Ameritopia
Levin explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations and the crisis that the government faces today