Towards a History of Consciousness:
Space, Time, and Death

By Vwadek P. Marciniak

Table of Contents

PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION 1

I: THE PRE-MODERN WEST
One: Beginnings: Pre-History to Antiquity 9
Two: Medieval Persistence of Classical Antiquity 53

II: ENTRANCE INTO EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Three: The Renaissance: Altered Space and Time 95
From Re-Birth to Reform
Four: The Reformation of Early Modernity 137
From Reform to Re-order
Five: Scientific Revolution and Detachment 179
From Re-Order to Restructure

III: EARLY MODERN DEFINITIONS
Six: Descartes and Consciousness 223
From Doubt to Certainty
Seven: John Locke and the Language of Consciousness 267
From Faith to Self-Identity
Eight: Enlightenment and the Birth of Modernity 309
From Thought to Sentiment

IV: MODERNITY AND BEYOND
Nine: Romantics, the Self and Individualism 357
From Reason to Feelings
Ten: The Fractured Age: Twentieth Century Transformation 401
From Order to Disorder
Eleven: A Time and Space for Consciousness 445
From Disorder to Creativity

CONCLUSION 491

APPENDIX I Quasi-Essentialistic Characterizations 495
APPENDIX II Contrastive Terms 497
APPENDIX III Cross-References 499

NOTES 505
BIBLIOGRAPHY 555
INDEX 587