Creating the New Man: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities
- ISBN-10
- 0824830741
- ISBN-13
- 9780824830748
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-12-31
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Author
- Yinghong Cheng
Description
How was this idealistic and utopian goal linked to specific political and economic programs? How do the policies of these particular regimes, based as they are on universal communist ideology, reflect national and cultural traditions? Cheng begins by exploring the origins of the idea of human perfectibility during the Enlightenment. His discussion moves to other European intellectual movements, and then to the creation of the Soviet Man, the first communist new man in world history. Subsequent chapters examine China's experiment with human nature, starting with the nationalistic debate about a new national character at the turn of the twentieth century; and Cuban perceptions of the new man and his role in propelling the revolution from a nationalist, to a socialist, and finally a communist movement. The last chapter considers the global influence" --Book Jacket.
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