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Author B.F. Skinner is considered the Patriarch of Behaviorism, and Walden Two is his allegorical yet practical treatise on creating Utopia. Is Utopia possible? How can it be achieved? Is behavioral engineering a gift or heresy? Walden Two is an engaging book that paints a compelling picture for a new type of society.
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Skinner, B. F.--(Burrhus Frederic),--1904---Walden two.
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Skinner, B. F.--(Burrhus Frederic),--1904---Walden two.
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Walden Two
Notes
by Cynthia C. McGowan, M.A. University of Nebraska
and
James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Professor of English University of Nebraska
including Life and Background Skinner and Behaviorism An Account of Utopian Literature List of Characters Critical Commentaries Utopian Communities Utopia and Communism Anti-Utopias Thoreau's Walden and Skinner's Walden Two Racism and Sexism in Walden Two Skinner's Language Questions for Review Selected Bibliography
INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501
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Editor
Gary Carey, M.A. University of Colorado
Consulting Editor
James L. Roberts, Ph.D. Department of English University of Nebraska
ISBN 0-8220-1361-4 Copyright 1979 by Cliffs Notes, Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in U.S.A.
1998 Printing
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Contents
Life and Background
5
Skinner and Behaviorism
6
The Utopian Theme
8
A Brief Account of Utopian Literature
Plato's Republic and Ancient Utopias
9
Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Skinner's Walden Two
11
Utopian Literature after More
17
Bellamy and Morris: Nineteenth-Century Utopias and Walden Two
18
List of Characters
20
Critical Commentaries
22
Established Utopian Communities
48
Utopia and Communism
49
Anti-Utopias
50
Samuel Butler's Erewhon
51
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
52
George Orwell's 1984
54
Thoreau's Walden and Skinner's Walden Two
55
Sins of Omission: Racism and Sexism in Walden Two
57
Skinner's Language
58
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Questions for Review
60
Selected Bibliography
60
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Life and Background
Burrhus Frederick Skinner (Burrhus was his mother's maiden name) was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, on March 20, 1904. His parents were middle-class Protestants who offered their children (Skinner had one younger brother) vacations at summer camps, piano lessons, and other trappings of the respectable life.
In 1922, Skinner graduated from the same high school his parents had attended and decided to attend Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Having always enjoyed school, he looked forward to an intellectual environment in which students would eagerly and voluntarily study. What he found, instead, was a campus full of students more inclined to socialize than theorize. Consequently, Skinner spent his freshman year studying languages and learning to deal with loneliness. Poetry provided him with an outlet for his feelings and having written since an early age, he turned to writing again in college, occasionally contributing poems to the campus literary magazine.
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