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- Rather a self-conscious subject is aware of themselves as themselves; it is manifest to them that they themselves are the object of awareness. Self-consciousness is a form of consciousness that is paradigmatically expressed in English by the words “I”, “me”, and “my”, terms that each of us uses to refer to ourselves as such.
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With reference to postmodernism, self-consciousness means self-reflexivity, that is the work of art or of literature exhibits awareness of its being artificial or fictional.
Jul 13, 2017 · Self-consciousness is a form of consciousness that is paradigmatically expressed in English by the words “I”, “me”, and “my”, terms that each of us uses to refer to ourselves as such.
*The self entails a provisional unity of being, yet this occurs, if it does at all, during transformation and dissolution. For the self, as a felt presence, is inescapably dynamic, at once coming into and slipping out of being. *The self [see Proust] creates a created self, manifested in works
1. Introduction. Throughout our waking life, we are conscious of a variety of things. We are often conscious of other people, of cars, trees, beetles, and other objects around us. We are conscious of their features: their colors, their shapes, and the sound they make.
This leads Shklovsky to the second main concept in his theory, that of ‘laying bare the device’ in order to achieve defamiliarization. Literature can thus be seen as inherently self-conscious, for ‘laying bare the device’, when applied to the literary work itself, results in self-conscious parody.
- Melba Sonderegger
Jun 18, 2004 · Self-consciousness. A third and yet more demanding sense might define conscious creatures as those that are not only aware but also aware that they are aware, thus treating creature consciousness as a form of self-consciousness (Carruthers 2000). The self-awareness requirement might get interpreted in a variety of ways, and which creatures ...
The general lack of agreement concerning the meaning of ‘consciousness’ and ‘self-consciousness’ is important to bear in mind when examining empirical work on consciousness.
