Special Episode 3| Roland Barthes on Toys, the Poor and the Working Class| Psychology of Toys and the Work Place

In the third special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the sections Toys and the Poor and the Proletariat in Roland Barthes' Mythologies. There is a detailed discussion of the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times (1936) that accompanies the second section

If you would like to follow along he is using the Hill and Wang 2012 edition of Barthes' Mythologies translated by Richard Howard and Annette Lavers

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