Product Description: Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements...read more

Product Description: '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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume assembles a selection of papers delivered at a conference held at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, in May 2000. The conference set out to examine the way in which literary or cultural texts can illuminate the thorny relation between ethics and subjectivity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book raises questions about the underlying paradigms of contemporary learning and social thinking, including the nature of consciousness and the mind, the purpose and conduct of eduation, the role of science and scientific methodologies, the place of art and literature, or relationship to the environment, our concepts of spirituality, our attitudes to the past and also what we are doing to our own future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this collection raise questions about the end of literature, with the word end taken in its varied meanings. Literary study begins with a commitment to the new; it has an end but does not end because the beginning is always renewed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this text discuss not only British literature but other literatures in English and texts in other media including film, and the changing face of not just one nation's cultural studies but cultural studies in a transnational environment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Unlike the Western mode, Sanskrit poetics provides an understanding of language and consciousness based not on difference but on the co-existence of opposites. This study argues that the knowledge of meaning and expanded consciousness provided by Sanskrit poetics supplements deconstruction and poststructuralism...read more