Introduction

William S. Haney II

Peter Malekin

Part 1. The Nature of Consciousness

The Science of Mind, Consciousness, and Literary Studies

William S. Haney II

What Price Humanity?

Peter Malekin

The Death of God: A Live Issue?

David Jasper

Part 2. The Arts and the Transformation of Consciousness

Consciousness and the Future of Theater

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

The Eloquence of Mercury and the Enchantments of Venus: Humanitas in Botticelli and Cervantes's Don Quixote

Frederick A. De Armas

Part 3. Humanism and Human Concern

Signing the Frame, Framing the Sign: Multiculturalism, Canonicity, Pluralism, and the Ethics of Reading Heart of Darkness

Daniel Schwarz

The Radical Tradition of Humanistic Consciousness

Robert M. Torrance

Part 4. Our Future Is Now

Epilogue: APIUM (Association for the Protection & Integrity of an Unspoiled Mars)

Brian W. Aldiss

Notes on Contributors

Index