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Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities

Yinghong Cheng

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Description:The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a new man has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse socio-political experiments - the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro - in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the new man.The book's fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities. To get started finding Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 265

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Release: 2008

ISBN: 0824862023

Description: The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a new man has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse socio-political experiments - the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro - in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the new man.The book's fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities. To get started finding Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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