Aliens in America
Subtitle: the strange truth about our souls
By: Peter Augustine Lawler.
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Social change -- United States.; Social history.; Religion and law -- United States.; Religion and politics -- United States.; United States -- Social conditions.
Description: "Does human history have a future?

In his latest work, Aliens in America, political philosopher Peter Augustine Lawler argues that the advent of the new biotechnology - cloning, gene therapy, Prozac, Ritalin, and the like - means that we must consider anew the possibility that Americans are living near the end of history, a time when full equality will be achieved through the elimination of all that is distinctively human about us: the ability to passionately love and hate, to strive nobly for truth and wisdom, to search for God.

For the elimination of human distinctiveness is now being systematically pursued through the biochemical transformation of human nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : bobo virtue and the future of human liberty; title: The end of history today; title: Francis Fukuyama as teacher of evil; title: Aliens are us?; title: Richard Rorty's America; title: American political science; title: The new liberalism; title: Natural law and the American proposition; title: Religion, philosophy, and the American founding; title: Religion and the American idea of liberty; title: Percy and Tocqueville on American aristocracy and democracy.