"People are so interested in becoming a modern country, that they don't have a self-consciousness of cultural heritage," he said.
Following a theory of Homeric authorship that assumed the Odyssey to have been composed at least a century after the Iliad, he pointed out that Odysseus, who is constantly reflecting and planning, manifests a self-consciousness of mind.
They exhibit a self-consciousness of process and a willingness to mix high and low that would emerge more clearly at the end of the 1950s in the work of artists as diverse as Peter Saul, Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns.
In my hashtag first world problem depression made worse by a self-consciousness of how lucky I actually am, and how grateful I fail to be—I started going to the San Francisco Zen Center every Saturday morning for their 10 00 AM Dharma talk.
There was a certain stiffness in his manner, a self-consciousness, like that of an actor about to deliver a too-famous line.
Obama has, Schama thinks, a "compulsive self-consciousness of the historical moment," and seems to be fond of history, rhetoric, and intellectual inquiry.
Li Xiaodong creates a labyrinth of twig screens that leads sometimes to claustrophobic dead-ends, but also to an unexpected inner courtyard, amplified by mirrors, which also produce an uneasy self-consciousness of your own presence in the space.
The solo projects at Volta, in particular, exhibited a slightly queasy self-consciousness of art as a commodity.
This gives an air of self consciousness to the acting, makes it crisp, and keeps it fresh.
And what dominates the Nixonian psyche in Alice Goodman's libretto is a consciousness — a sort of split self-consciousness — of history in the making.
"A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society", Roger Scruton wrote last year in the Guardian.
