جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "mass" در نشریات گروه "فلسفه و کلام"

In the present article, the focus of study and analysis is the ‘matter’ as a common subject for science and philosophy. Accordingly, we first mention the views of some philosophers and authorities – both early and recent – on matter, and then we analyze the matter as prime matter, secondary matter, empirical matter and their relationship. The notion of matter in Islamic philosophy has not altered in centuries for long, and marvelous scientific findings in this regard have not influenced Muslim philosophers. Accordingly, these definitions have nothing to do with matter studied by empirical sciences. In the present article, we show that if we look at matter from a newer angle, we may find a proper relationship between argumentative matter in Islamic philosophy and the empirical matter in new science.

Baudrillard, who is in transitional period from Marxism, gives a clear and efficient description of consumer society as an important feature of new Capitalism. Having acquired concepts and theories about technology and consumer society, and at the onset of information age, he deals with this kind of society to analyze it in relation to previous concepts. The result of practical combination of technology, consumer society, and information age leads him to observe a new society that some have called post-modern society. Baudrillard considers Unites States as the complete model of this society, and tries to describe this newly created or ongoing situation, using his important concept, that is hyperreality, and focusing on new technologies, medias, and mass. Present paper, while looking briefly at Baudrillard’s thought development, deals with the key concept of his thought, i.e. hyperreality. Then he proceeds to investigate the image that he provides about mass media, collapse of significance, and disappearing of social fact, and finally the mass formation according to the concept of hyperreality. At the end discusses some criticism of his views.