Roland Barthes at the Collège de France

Roland Barthes at the Collège de France
ISBN-10
1846318432
ISBN-13
9781846318436
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Author
Lucy O'Meara

Description

Roland Barthes at the Collège de France studies the four lecture courses given by Roland Barthes in Paris between 1977 and 1980, placing Barthes's teaching within institutional, intellectual, and personal contexts. Theoretically wide-ranging, Lucy O'Meara's account focuses on Barthes's pedagogical style and the insights they provide into his written works, including his focus on essayism and fragmentation and the negotiation between singularity and universality. Linking Barthes's strategies to broad intellectual influences, from Kant and Adorno to Zen and Taoist philosophies, O'Meara reassesses Barthes's critical and ethical priorities in the decade before his death, highlighting the vitality of his late thought.

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