experience in consciousness’s own modes and operations. From the postmodern as opposed to the modern perspective, then, consciousness means “an internal experience in the strict sense of the self and its acts.”26 Let me stress two more points about this postmodern understanding of consciousness. First, consciousness defined as internal experience is more primitive and more originative than standard modern conceptions of consciousness rooted in Cartesian or Kantian epistemologies of the subject, neither
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