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The problem of "alienation" and the "alienated man" is one of the most attractive features of the critique of modernity. Ali Shariati, the contemporary Iranian theorist who was highly concerned with the critique of both tradition and modernity, introduced the idea of a "third way". As the main cause for decadence, defining and defying alienation was at the core of Shariati's intellectual agenda. In this paper, we will explain his view on alienation and his recommended solution which invites peoples of the third world to return to their very identity. Then, some critical arguments raised by his critics will be explored and assessed.

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Study of human being in a literary text based on philosophical is a comparative approach from literature and philosophy that its shortage and necessity is obvious in literal researches.”Self-consciousness” and “Death” are  basic disputes in recognition human being philosophy and subject analysis in a literal text. In this essay the novel  Tarikhe Serrie Bahadorane Forse Ghadim written by Siroos Shamisa from the style of acquiring knowledge point of view, reaching to self-consciousness, the textual condition of appearing such condition and its effect on mind, human being life in the postmodern is analyzed. Theoretical basses of this research is more based on philosophical source and the important aim is analyzing the condition of human being as human not as a story character. So it will be obvious that human being in the condition of postmodern self-consciousness is a subject that its perfection and integrity is impossible but there will be condition which empowered the human objective features and it can be considered as “Death of Subject”. Death of Subject in this sense is not the mystical death in its perfection step, but this death is another path of its perfection.

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This paper aims to explore the relationship between epic poetry and national self-consciousness and in particular study how Shahnameh may be analyzed from this angle. What is the relationship between the Shahnameh and the Iranian national self-consciousness? What can one say about the Iranian national self-consciousness on the basis of this text? What does the text reveal about the Iranian identity? A related question should also be answered, is the Shahnameh an epic? This is not a pedantic question concerned merely with definitions and labels. As will become clear, an epic reveals a great deal about the national consciousness of the people to whom it belongs (or who belong to it); to identify a poem as an epic, is to be making an important statement about the national consciousness of a people. The question of whether the Shahnameh is an epic or not is hence far from a pedantic one. It takes us right into the heart of Iranian national consciousness