Roland Barthes at the Collège de France
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
224 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
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.
Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
“A well-researched and well-executed study. . . . it will gain an honorable place on the shelf of books about Barthes.”
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Abbreviations and References
Note on Abbreviations and References
Introduction
1. Barthes’s Heretical Teaching
2. Leçon and ‘Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure . . .’
3. Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and their Context
4. Japonisme and Minimal Existence in the Cours
5. La Préparation du roman: The Novel and the Fragment
Afterword
Appendix: List of Roland Barthes’s Seminars and Lecture Courses at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, 1963–1980
Bibliography
Index
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