Hilke Kuhlmann. Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities.(Book review)

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Hilke Kuhlmann. Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Champaign, IL: U of Illinois P, 2005. xiii + 245 pp. $35.00

Kuhlmann's fascinating study examines the history of intentional communities inspired by Skinner's novel, Walden Two. In that novel, the Harvard educator--disillusioned by the consumerism, alienation, and inequity of mainstream America--constructed a socialist rural utopia based on the principles of behavioral psychology. Though published in 1948, Skinners book received scant attention until the late 1960s, when ...

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