Walden Two
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What if human happiness could be engineered as precisely as a laboratory experiment? Walden Two presents the fictional utopian community of the same name, founded by the brilliant and unsettling psychologist T.E. Frazier, where behavioural science governs every aspect of daily life — from work and leisure to love and child-rearing — yielding a society of remarkable contentment that challenges every assumption its visitors hold dear. Through the eyes of a group of sceptical university professors and their students, B.F. Skinner constructs a provocative philosophical debate disguised as a novel, forcing the reader to confront uncomfortable questions about freedom, autonomy, and the true nature of human dignity. Skinner, the towering figure of 20th-century behaviourist psychology, wields fiction as a scalpel, using Walden Two to argue passionately for the application of his science of human behaviour to the design of society itself. The novel's tone oscillates masterfully between the seductive and the deeply troubling, as its utopia is rendered both achingly plausible and morally disquieting — a tension that has kept it one of the most debated works at the intersection of literature, psychology, and political philosophy for decades. Is Frazier a visionary or a tyrant? Skinner refuses to answer simply, and that ambiguity is precisely what makes this work impossible to put down — or forget.
Author: B.F. Skinner
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What if human happiness could be engineered as precisely as a laboratory experiment? Walden Two presents the fictional utopian community of the same name, founded by the brilliant and unsettling psychologist T.E. Frazier, where behavioural science governs every aspect of daily life — from work and leisure to love and child-rearing — yielding a society of remarkable contentment that challenges every assumption its visitors hold dear. Through the eyes of a group of sceptical university professors and their students, B.F. Skinner constructs a provocative philosophical debate disguised as a novel, forcing the reader to confront uncomfortable questions about freedom, autonomy, and the true nature of human dignity. Skinner, the towering figure of 20th-century behaviourist psychology, wields fiction as a scalpel, using Walden Two to argue passionately for the application of his science of human behaviour to the design of society itself. The novel's tone oscillates masterfully between the seductive and the deeply troubling, as its utopia is rendered both achingly plausible and morally disquieting — a tension that has kept it one of the most debated works at the intersection of literature, psychology, and political philosophy for decades. Is Frazier a visionary or a tyrant? Skinner refuses to answer simply, and that ambiguity is precisely what makes this work impossible to put down — or forget.