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Walden Two

Author:
B.F. Skinner
Read by:
Robert McCollum
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Book
30
Narrator
8
Release Date
September 6, 2016
Duration
9 hours 26 minutes
Summary
From author and psychologist B. F. Skinner, regarded by many as the most important and influential psychologist since Freud, comes "Walden Two". This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. The novel describes an experimental community called "Walden Two", whose members are happy, productive, and creative; their happiness derives from non-nuclear family life; amazingly limited work hours; communal child-raising; free affection; the creation of art, music, and literature; opportunity for games of chess and tennis; and ample rest, food, and sleep. It's a utopia inspired by the experience described in Henry David Thoreau's "Walden", but "with company". Fans of philosophical writers like Ayn Rand or Karl Marx and imagined utopia's like Aldous Huxley's "Island" will enjoy broadening their minds with the challenging ideas described by Skinner in this classic novel.
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Profile Avatar Thorn Feb 2025

It may be a bit old fashioned in style, and at times I gave the book a rest. But the philosophy really resonated with me, perhaps more so as I had swopped a corporate career for self sustainable living on a farm

Profile Avatar Vasilije S. Jan 2025

Good book.

Walden Two

Walden Two

Author: B.F. Skinner
Read by: Robert McCollum
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