![]() The author suggests that the mythic resonances of Einstein's image reconcile two manifestations of the. Part 1 of the book is a series of essays from a monthly column he wrote for the literary magazine Lettres Nouvelles between 19. The second, and perhaps contradictory, representation of Einstein's brain is as a construction of deep complexity, capable of immense amounts of hard work, the meaning of which only Einstein himself could fully understand. In Mythologies (originally published in 1957), Barthes analyzes a number of such myths from France in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() This representation, the author suggests, evokes a sense of magic, mystery, and spirituality. The first is as a potential source of logical insight able to reduce the many mysteries of life to a simple mathematical equation similar to E=mc?, Einstein's famous distillation of the relationship between matter and energy. ![]() ![]() The author specifically examines the varying ways in which Einstein's brain is presented in popularized, mythic culture. The myth according to Barthes is an ideological apparatus which portrays reality in a certain manner and in compliance with a certain ruling ideology (Althusser presents a similar argument in Ideologyand Ideological State Apparatuses ). "The Brain of Einstein" This essay examines and defines the myths surrounding Albert Einstein, one of the most famous mathematicians of the contemporary era. ![]()
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