Time as the central core in Dariush Shaygans 'thought

The present paper based on a descriptive-analytical research method, tries to survey the place of time in Dariush Shaygan's intellectual system, especially its appearanceand emergence in the realm of traditional and modern culture, poetry, painting, architecture and novel. The results show that he considers time to be the central signifier or core of culture. This central core in traditional Oriental cultures is mythical time and in modern Western culture is linear time. With a deep attachment which has to the mythical time and its manifestations, he tries to find it by digging into various thoughts. According to Shaygan, although with the advent of modernity in Western culture, the mythical time was abolished and replaced by linear time, but at the end of the twentieth century, following the electronic revolution, linear time gave it’s place to the global present time which has great affinity with mythical time. Of course, their ontological differences should not be disregarded. Eventually, this effort of Shaygan leads him to the novel, and he finds the time of the early myths in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time.