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符号学历险
《符号学历险》是作者故世后,由其好友哲学家兼专职编辑弗朗索瓦·瓦尔选编的。这部选集不仅内容较为丰富全面,而且编造精当,便于读者系统地把握作者的思想,所以在1985年出版后相当流行,并被译成多种文字。 这部选编实际上包括两大部分内容:叙事符号学的原理和实践,以及根据符号学方法对历史思想和现代文化进行的意义构成分析(包括古典修辞学史的构成分析)。 《符号学历险》各篇均为作者讲稿辑录,显示出师生对话的文体和风格。换言之,讲演者作为结构主义“作者”,甚至于是通过讲述过程来呈现其本人思想探索历程的,其讲课过程,也即思想创造过程,也就自然流露出任何精神创造初始阶段中所含有的探索性或“冒险性”(指对传统、主流、权威的批评和违离部分)。 -
Elements of Semiology
"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction -
A Lover's Discourse
The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. It will be enjoyed and understood by two groups of readers: those who have been in love (Or think they have, which is the same thing), and those who have never been in love (or think they have not, which is the same thing). This book might be considered, in its restless search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's. -
羅蘭巴特訪談錄
羅蘭•巴特(Roland Barthes,1915~1980)是20世紀馳名國際的法國文論家。這本39篇訪談錄,是羅蘭.巴特成名之後,從1962年到1980年(因車禍亡故這一年),總計18年之間,接受法國各報章雜誌訪談的全部紀錄。在這些訪談中,他陸續談到每一本書背後的寫作緣由,及中心題旨。他言簡意賅說出了他不同生命的過程中,每個階段的發展軌跡。因此,我們可以肯定,這本訪談錄是進入巴特思想世界不可少的一本入門書。 -
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