Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism

Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nPart I Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability\n1 Redefining Utopianism for a Post- consumer society\n2 The Mythical Background: remembering original equality\n3 Theories of Realised Utopianism\nPart II Utopian Sociability in Fiction and Practice\n4 The Varieties of Utopian Practice\n5 Luxury, Sociability, and Progress in Literary Projections of Utopia: from Thomas more to the eighteenth century\n6 The Triumph of Unsocial Sociability? luxury in the eighteenth century\nPart III Luxury and Sociability in Later Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Utopianism\n7 The Later Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution\n8 Simplicity and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Utopianism\nPart IV Modern Consumerism and Its Opponents\n9 Twentieth-Century Consumerism and the Utopian Response\n10 Counterculture and Consumerism: The 1960s\n11 Life after Consumerism: Utopianism in the age of sufficiency\nConclusion: The Great Change: creating enhanced simplicity\nAfterword: Covid-19 and Sociability\nBibliography of Works Cited\nIndex\nA NOTE ON THE TYPE