作者:
Roland Barthes 出版社: Hill and Wang 副标题: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation 译者:
Richard Howard
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Annette Lavers 出版年: 2013-3-12 页数: 274 定价: USD 17.00 装帧: 平装 ISBN: 9780809071944
“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.
“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.
Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, or happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.
What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today’s social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes’s classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.
作者简介
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Roland Barthes was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he influenced the development of various schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.
p18 (The world of wrestling)
We are therefore dealing with a real Human Comedy, where the most socially-inspired nuances of passion (conceit, rightfulness, refined cruelty, a sense of `paying one's debts') always felicitously find the clearest sign which can receive them, express them and triumphantly carry them to the confines of the hall. It is obvious that at such a pitch, it no longer matters whether the passion is genuine or not. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. There is no more a problem of truth in wrestling than in the theatre. In both, what is expected is the intelligible representation of moral situations which are usually private. This emptying out of interiority to the benefit of its exterior signs, this exhaustion of the content by the f... (查看原文)
p10 Preface The following essays were written one each month for about two years, from 1954 to 1956, on topics suggested by current events. I was at the time trying to reflect regularly on some myths of French daily life. The media which prompted these refl...
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0 有用 小驿 2015-09-24 02:31:26
虽然罗兰巴特在章节的前后排序选择方面毫无任何逻辑性可言，但这本书的内容真的是很有意思。BTW封面美女好评。
0 有用 綦 2020-08-03 06:36:30
Self-referential myths are either great religions or dubious hoaxes, such as conspiracy theories, fake news, and your neighborhood cults.
0 有用 迷楼 2022-07-15 00:58:50
Reconciliation between reality and men
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好看
1 有用 一颗糖 2016-10-27 19:12:43
感谢作者，如果没有这本书，靠国内的渣翻译，我这辈子也不会看懂罗兰巴特。