Utopia and Consciousness - Haney, William S. (Rodopi, 2011)
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Content; Preface:; Chapter One: Utopia, Deconstruction and Sanskrit Poetics; Chapter Two: Utopia and Unity in Sanskrit Poetics; Chapter Three: Utopia, Presence, Repetition and Vedic Philosophy; Chapter Four: Utopia and James Joyce's Ulysses; Chapter Five: Utopia and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Chapter Six: Utopia, the Self and the Fantastic in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Chapter Seven: Utopia, Soyinka's Ritual Drama, and The Mistake of the Intellect; Bibliography; Index
In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia unless humans reach a state of pure consciousness in which they will use their full mental potential and avoid making blunders in life that would undermine the possibility of a utopia. This book develops a non-teleological, comparative poetics between Western and Sanskrit literary traditions by analyzing
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151) and index