mythologique

is a book with a double theoretical framework: (1) an ideological critique bearing on the language of so-called mass-culture (2) a first attempt to analyze semiologically the mechanics of this language.

This book has a double theoretical framework: on the one hand, an ideological critique bearing on the language of so-called mass- culture; on the other, a first attempt to analyse semiologically the mechanics of this language.

is an attempt to go further than the pious show of unmasking them and account in detail for the mystification which transforms petit-bourgeois culture into a universal nature.

I had just read Saussure and as a result acquired the conviction that by treating 'collective representations' as sign-systems, one might hope to go further than the pious show of unmasking them and account in detail for the mystification which transforms petit-bourgeois culture into a universal nature.

is an attempt to track down, in the decorative display of what-goes-without-saying, the ideological abuse which seems to be hidden there.

In short, in the account given of our contemporary circumstances, I resented seeing Nature and History confused at every turn, and I wanted to track down, in the decorative display of what-goes-without-saying, the ideological abuse which, in my view, is hidden there.

is concerned with examples of the falsely obvious.

Right from the start, the notion of myth seemed to me to explain these examples of the falsely obvious.

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mythologique