"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and object...
"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said
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)
非常喜欢。有用的不仅仅是看似复杂的semiotic system (signifier and signified)，更多是关于我们如何看待、解构眼前的世界。Roland Barthes同样给了我们吃与不吃蓝药丸的机会——我们可以做myth的reader、creater抑或是interpreter。（Classical Mythology）
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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罗兰·巴特 作者
Eldorado
上海人民出版社2016版
安提戈涅
上海人民出版社2009版
龟龟
上海人民出版社2016版
汪杨
迷雾
上海人民出版社2016版
查微迩
上海人民出版社2016版
0 有用 Nymmmmmmmmeria 2013-04-28 09:38:44
O.M.G. my mind is blown..........i feel fucking ENLIGHTENED........
0 有用 Mark Acct. 2013-05-03 09:51:20
随手翻翻
0 有用 adel 2008-12-18 11:36:26
myth explained through semiotics
0 有用 默默 2018-06-26 12:16:13
浓浓的时代气息。Myth在巴特看来是这么危险的东西，但他最终也承认the best weapon against myth is to produce an artificial myth. 其实所有的myth都是aritificial myth，那么myth当然可以为我所用。
0 有用 Endless_Summer 2012-10-26 23:57:22
Roland Barthes kills me with this sexy semiotic exploration on SINGs of signs. A hard-boiled reading for those who want their IQs increased.
0 有用 WanzZza1 2024-04-05 10:13:12 美国
Barthes可能是唯一一个把structuralism写得引人入胜的哲学家
0 有用 sixland 2024-03-11 18:11:28 瑞士
myth和现实交织的一个流动世界
0 有用 虹 2024-03-02 22:04:31 美国
非常喜欢。有用的不仅仅是看似复杂的semiotic system (signifier and signified)，更多是关于我们如何看待、解构眼前的世界。Roland Barthes同样给了我们吃与不吃蓝药丸的机会——我们可以做myth的reader、creater抑或是interpreter。（Classical Mythology）
0 有用 1evilbiao 2023-08-08 23:18:37 四川
一个悲观主义哲学家对万物皆符号化现象的阐释： 《影响力(Influence)》的哲学演绎（form, concept框架），当代柏拉图地穴寓言——“解释就是掩饰，掩饰就是撒谎”。 但是可悲的是，这个世界对假内行太友好了，符号被大众化之后，思辨是无用的，因为人间清醒大多没有好下场。
0 有用 W4 2023-02-09 14:51:45 美国
Semiology is the new caffeine!