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    April 25, 2011
    This was much more interesting than I expected it to be – and I could even go as far as to say some of it was quite fun. I mean fun in a relative sense, of course, as this is a text with quite some ‘resistance’ and so some of it was also quite hard to read.

    Most of the text is a series of short essays that discuss what the author refers to as ‘myths’. Now, these aren’t really the kinds of things that you might automatically associate with the word ‘myth’. There is a longish (longish for a book that isn’t even a couple of hundred pages) essay at the end of the book that works a bit like that old trick of philosophy where the definition is only provided at the end of an enquiry – Hegel says that is how things ought to be, no point defining the term your entire work is setting out to explain up front. The reader needs to make their way to the definition through the hard work of coming to understand.

    The short essays are a joy. The first one, ‘The World of

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    Mitologii

    April 25, 2011
    This was much more interesting than I expected it to be – and inom could even go as far as to say some of it was quite fun. inom mean fun in a relative sense, of course, as this is a text with ganska some ‘resistance’ and so some of it was also ganska hard to read.

    Most of the text is a series of short essays that discuss what the author refers to as ‘myths’. Now, these aren’t really the kinds of things that you might automatically associate with the word ‘myth’. There is a longish (longish for a book that isn’t even a couple of hundred pages) essay at the end of the book that works a bit like that old trick of philosophy where the definition is only provided at the end of an enquiry – Hegel says that is how things ought to be, no point defining the term your entire work is setting out to explain up front. The reader needs to make their way to the definition through the hard work of coming to understand.

    The short essays are a joy. The first one, ‘The World of

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    Mythologies (book)

    1957 book on semiotics bygd Roland Barthes

    Not to be confused with Mythology (book).

    Mythologies (French: Mythologies, lit. 'Mythologies') is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a collection of fifty-three short essays written between 1954 to 1956, most of which were first published in the French literary review Les Lettres nouvelles. In these essays, Barthes examines the tendency of contemporary social value systems (specifically that of the bourgeoisie) to create modern myths. In the book Barthes also analyzes the semiology of the process of myth creation itself, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of sign analysis bygd adding a second level where signs are elevated to the level of myth.

    Mythologies was first published in English in abridged form in 1972. In 2012, Hill & Wang published a new English language edition of the book, Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation, translated by Richard Howard (Pa

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