S/Z ist das Ergebnis einer strukturalen Balzac-Lektüre, einer Lektüre, die nicht primär den Inhalt, das Erzählte eines Textes analysiert, sondern Wort- und Satzsequenzen, deren Beziehungen aufeinander und auf andere Texte, die strukturale Bedeutung eines Zeichens. Barthes nimmt den Text nicht naiv als das, was er bedeuten will bzw. zu bedeuten vorgibt, sondern vorab als kunstvolles Gewebe von Signifikanten, deren "Sinn" nur aus ihren referentiellen und strukturalen Beziehungen zu entschlüsseln ist.
S/Z ist das Ergebnis einer strukturalen Balzac-Lektüre, einer Lektüre, die nicht primär den Inhalt, das Erzählte eines Textes analysiert, sondern ...
In dieser ersten Vorlesungsreihe, die Roland Barthes nach seiner Berufung an das renommierte College de France hielt, geht es dem groen franzsischen Essayisten um eine Form eingeschrnkten Zusammenlebens in Gruppen, das die Freiheit des Individuums dennoch nicht ausschlieen soll. Modelle solcher Gemeinschaften, die oft durch eine rumliche Beschrnkung charakterisiert sind, findet Barthes im religisen Schrifttum, besonders aber in Werken der Literatur. In seinen fulminanten Analysen, etwa der Konstellationen Grand Hotel/Zauberberg (Thomas Mann), Hhle/Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) oder...
In dieser ersten Vorlesungsreihe, die Roland Barthes nach seiner Berufung an das renommierte College de France hielt, geht es dem groen franzsischen E...
In these interviews Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to people who have inspired him, and discusses how his life became dedicated to an exploration of semiotics. What comes across is the sheer gusto of a man who never stopped developing and changing.
In these interviews Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to people who...
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and a landmark in his oeuvre. The debate had engaged the European literary community since the 1930s; with this fierce manifesto, Barthes challenged the notion of literature's obligation to be socially committed. Yes, Barthes allows, the writer has a political and ethical responsibility. But the history of French literature shows that the writer has often failed to meet it--and from...
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses...
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book--one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.
Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to...
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more prop...
In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. While they were welcomed by writers and academics, the travelers were required to follow a pre-established itinerary, visiting factories and construction sites, frequenting shows and restaurants that were the mainstay of Western visitors to China in the 70s.
Barthes planned to return from the trip with a book...
In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in Chi...
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France s preeminent College de France, where he chose to style himself as...
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one dis...
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including "Empire of Signs," " The Pleasure of the Text," and" Camera Lucida." In 1976, this one time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France s preeminent College de France, where he chose to style himself as professor of...
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one dis...
