He's looking at all the examples in the arts that relate to the fact of the future, and what we do in our fantasy life and in our very structured plans for utopias i.e. the imagination of a perfect world. He uses examples in literature and in music to elaborate what he means by human endeavors to explore and discuss the possibilities of hope in great detail; he refers to philosophers like Marx and other great philosophers such as Plato; and also relates these ideas to modern psychological theories. He wrote this very long original book as a refugee from Nazi Germany while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is my town. He found a safe haven, where he could work out his ideas for this book: That in itself is an example of hope fulfilled. Copyright by Nicholas H. Van Vactor 2010.
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