Total Awareness

Total awareness is contrasted with point of view in that it represents all points of view simultaneously.

Examples

 * The Cubism art movement reacted to older views of art that created the illusion of three-dimensional space by painting from a single viewpoint. Instead, cubism represents the top, bottom, inside, and outside of an object simulateously.
 * McLuhan asserts that existentialism is a philosophy "of total social involvement instead of the bourgeouis spirit of individual separateness"--although it is not clear how this relates to existentialism's emphasis on the individual.