Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.
Michael Polanyi: Consciousness as focal and subsidiary awareness -- Bernard Lonergan: Consciousness as experience and operation -- Eric Voegelin: Consciousness as experience and symbolization -- Paul Ricoeur: Consciousness as a hermeneutic field -- Ren�e Girard: Consciousness and the dynamics of desire -- S�ren Kierkegaard: Consciousness as incarnate subjectivity -- The differentiation and integration of consciousness in the individual and history.