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Mythologies

by Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
Mythologies - Thryft
Mythologies - Thryft

Decoding everyday life's hidden cultural meanings.

If you find delight in unraveling the complex tapestry of culture and everyday objects, "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes will intrigue you. It offers a series of sharp, revealing critiques that unwrap the layered meanings in the mundane, exposing the 'myths' that govern our perception. It's like a treasure hunt through cultural phenomena, where every discovery sheds light on how deeply entrenched and 'naturalized' our social constructs are.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Mythologies

by Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
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ISBN: 9780586081648
Authors: Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers
Publisher: Paladiin
Date of Publication: 1973-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Philosophy, Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Theory, Essays
Goodreads rating: 4.09
(rated by 15745 readers)

Description

"[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
 

Decoding everyday life's hidden cultural meanings.

If you find delight in unraveling the complex tapestry of culture and everyday objects, "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes will intrigue you. It offers a series of sharp, revealing critiques that unwrap the layered meanings in the mundane, exposing the 'myths' that govern our perception. It's like a treasure hunt through cultural phenomena, where every discovery sheds light on how deeply entrenched and 'naturalized' our social constructs are.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.