Acknowledgments
Preface
I. Towards Chaosmos
The Situation
Literature and Science
New Reckonings
Chaosmos
II. Joycean Chaosmos and the Self-Organizing World
Joyce's Critique of Enlightenment
Joycean Holography
III. The Chaosmic Self
Resonances
Eliot's Upanishad
Lacan's Mystical Ejaculations
Forster's Permanent Parabasis
The Chaosmic
IV. Chaosmoi
The Apocalyptic Tone
Mailer's Ancient Egypt
Merrill's Other World
Lessing's Evolutionary Universe
Conclusion
Endnotes
Index