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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

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Online Exclusive | May 24, 2011

May 24, 2011

  • Caitrin Keiper

Utopian Virtues

Caitrin Keiper

Fiction | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Algis Valiunas

The Last Temptation of Science

On “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and the crooked path to Paradise

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Fred Baumann

Humanism and Transhumanism

Fred Baumann

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Review | Spring 2010

Spring 2010

  • James Bowman

Avatar and the Flight from Reality

James Bowman

Essay | Summer 2009

Summer 2009

  • Alan Jacobs

The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks

Alan Jacobs

Review | Summer 2008

Summer 2008

  • Rita Koganzon

The World Made New

Rita Koganzon

The cubicles from Office Space (Copyright Twentieth Century Fox)

State of the Art | Winter 2008

Winter 2008

  • David Franz

The Moral Life of Cubicles

The Utopian Origins of Dilbert’s Workspace

David Franz

Essay | Summer 2007

Summer 2007

  • James Bowman

Heroism, Modernism, and the Utopian Impulse

James Bowman

Essay | Spring 2007

Spring 2007

  • Caitrin Keiper

Brave New World at 75

Reading Aldous Huxley’s novel as its first readers did

Caitrin Keiper

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