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Various definitions of the concept of the American Dream and its several socio-cultural and political-economic drivers will be studied in this course. We will explore what the Dream has meant to Americans from the early days of the Republic through our own times and what effects attempting to fulfill the Dream has had on America’s make-up and worldview. The class will discuss the material as well as the non-material (“spiritual”) aspect of the American Dream and the desirability of modifying it. We will also address a possible (consequent) reshaping of America into a more ecologically sustainable and more ethically sound …