William Morris's commitment to a "critical notion of beauty" led him to develop a unique and important socialist position, in which beauty, desire, pleasure, and ecological sustainability were key facets to his political vision.

Introduction to the Second Edition (2024): William Morris's Utopian Matrix: Beauty,
Ecosocialism, and Political Action
Introduction to the First Edition (1999)
Chapter One: The Question of Cultural Politics
Chapter Two: The Great Exhibition and the Class Politics of Art
Chapter Three: Towards a Political Economy of Art: John Ruskin and the Representation of
Labor in Aesthetic Theory
Chapter Four: Constituting the Aesthetic Self: Medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and Morris's
Early Aesthetic Education
Chapter Five: Aesthetic Theory and Political Subjectivities: Morris's Lectures on Art
Chapter Six: The Political Theory of William Morris: Revolutionary Socialism, Utopian
Practicalities, and the Beauty of Life
Conclusion: Morris and Western Marxism