Utopia and Its Enemies

'''Kateb, George. Utopia and Its Enemies.''' (c) 1963. New York: The Free P of Glencoe (A Division of The Macmillan Company), n.d. Also, London, UK, and Galt, Ontario: Collier-Macmillan Ltd.

G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four relegated to a brief appendix, but deals usefully with E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," A. Huxley's Brave New World, Y. Zamyatin's We, and, most esp., B. F. Skinner's Walden Two. See for (1) the importance for utopian and antiutopian thought of real-world technology, including techniques for psychological conditioning, and (2) metaphors of social machinery, robots, and anthills.