Ameritopia
Subtitle: the unmaking of America
By: Mark R. Levin
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781439173244; 9781439173282
Subjects: Politics and government; Utopias; Philosophy; Democracy
Description: Levin explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations and the crisis that the government faces today.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. On utopianism: the tyranny of utopia; Plato's Republic and the myth of the perfect society; Thomas More's Utopia and the loss of individualism; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all powerful state; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and radical egalitarianism; title: Part II. On Americanism: John Locke and the nature of man; the influence of Locke on the founders; Charles Montesquieu and republican government; the influence of Montesquieu on the framers; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America; title: Part III. On utopia and America: post-constitutional America; Ameritopia.