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Utopia and consciousness / William S. Haney.

Title
Utopia and consciousness / William S. Haney.
Author
Haney, William S.
Publication
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

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155 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"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 their opposing theories of language, consciousness and meaning..."--P. [4] of cover.
Series Statement
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 29
Uniform Title
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 29.
Subject
  • Bewusstsein
  • Indien
  • Literatur
  • Utopias in literature > History and criticism
  • Utopias in literature
  • Utopie
  • Westliche Welt
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-151) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Utopia, deconstruction and Sanskrit poetics -- Utopia and unity in Sanskrit poetics -- Utopia, presence, repetition and Vedic philosophy -- Utopia and James Joyce's Ulysses -- Utopia and Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Utopia, the self and the fantastic in Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Utopia, Soyinka's ritual drama, and the mistake of the intellect.
ISBN
  • 9789042033054
  • 9042033053
  • 9789042033061
  • 9042033061
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library