masoome mirsaeedi; malek Hosseini; Shahla Eslami
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It seems that objective historiography and the question of the real referent in photography do not have a clear relation, as can be seen in most of the contemporary essays on the relation between history and photography which are based on new definitions of representational capacity of photography and ...
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It seems that objective historiography and the question of the real referent in photography do not have a clear relation, as can be seen in most of the contemporary essays on the relation between history and photography which are based on new definitions of representational capacity of photography and have no attention to past currents of historiography although all of them, in criticizing the photographic representation refer to works of Roland Barthes and his contemporaries, as the classical texts on photography. But a point that has been almost ignored is that Barthes' attention to the problem of the referent in photography goes beyond mere structuralism. His works on these two seemingly distinct areas namely history and photography show that his critical attitude toward the tradition of objective historiography, through all his intellectual life, from structuralism to poststructuralism, has been present in different areas including photography. What Barthes looks for by analyzing the problem of referent in photography is indeed the problem of objective historiography and its relation to reality, which he believes is not representable. Doubting the possibility of objectivity in historiography, Barthes challenges within semiotic framework the notion of ”photo is equal with reality” and therefore criticizes the realistic approach in history and photography.
maryam sane pour
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The civilization of any nation covers all of its cultural elements, and the myths constitute their early cultural motifs. According to Jung, the myths are present in the collective unconscious of any nation while Vico believes that the scholars of any age would be able to discover the history through ...
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The civilization of any nation covers all of its cultural elements, and the myths constitute their early cultural motifs. According to Jung, the myths are present in the collective unconscious of any nation while Vico believes that the scholars of any age would be able to discover the history through the study of myths. Due to their meta-historical nature, the ancient myths are good examples which meta-historically demonstrate the amazement, respect, and fallibility of early mankind to contemporary mankind. Meta-historical awareness of myths provides one with the opportunity to trace the origins of civilizations and facilitate mankind's progress. This article addresses the Greek myths as the most fundamental elements of modern Western civilization from a meta- historical perspective.
