Which theorist described myth as 'depoliticised speech' in bourgeois society?
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Correct answer: D. Roland Barthes
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In 'Myth Today' (Mythologies, 1957) Barthes reads myth as a second-order sign system that turns history into nature, so that myth is 'depoliticized speech'.
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