Culture and Consciousness: Literature Regained

Culture and Consciousness argues that the vast interdisciplinary boom in consciousness research has enormous implications for literary and cultural studies, and that the potential benefits of this research in the twenty-first century are momentous. Its objective is to show how consciousness studies can help us reassess our approach to key issues and the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory and criticism. In eight chapters, the first three theoretical and the others largely applied, major points of contention in the humanities are elucidated through a perspective that accommodates the full range of mind and consciousness. Haney demonstrates that the debates in recent theory surrounding the questions of identity, truth, and language cannot be resolved through the mind or reason alone without taking into account the structure of consciousness.