The significance of signs

In Camera Lucida, Barthes makes a distinction between a semiological approach and a phenomenological approach to the sign. While semiotic theory has usually focused on signs that work through mediation and representation, in this article we investigate the possibility of a sign that is immediate, experienced as a presence. This is not a sign of, or even the impossibility of a sign of; rather, it is a sign that just is, without an elsewhere to refer or defer to. This form of sign means nothing and is gratuitous, yet it has significance ? or, more accurately, it is significance. We investigate these ideas through Buber's account of the religious sign.     

有限对无限的超越:司马迁时空观初探

历经时间的淤积和空间的统合之后,秦汉以空前盛大之气象绍继三五,弘开百代.恢廓弘大的时代蕴育了司马迁对时空全面而深刻的自觉.这种自觉是整体一统且以人为本的,通过有限的生命个体和所处之时代对无限时空的反思,以及对时空间断性和连续性的分析,形成自己的时空观,完成有限对无限的超越.这种超越也正是他的时空观的理性照耀.