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Roland Barthes

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Also known as Roland Gérard Barthes

French philosopher and essayist

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Roland Gérard Barthes (1915–1980) was a French philosopher, literary critic, sociologist, and university teacher. Born in Cherbourg, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and later studied under Charles Panzéra. Associated with the structuralist movement, his intellectual development was influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Karl Marx. He held positions at the Collège de France, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and the National Center for Scientific Research.

Barthes is noted for works such as *Mythologies* and *The Death of the Author*. His doctoral students included André Labarrère, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Danièle Sallenave, and Pierre Bergounioux. He died in Paris in 1980 from an accidental death.

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Person · Open Library

Born
12 Nov 1915
Died
26 Mar 1980
Works
428

Top works

  • Mythologies
  • al-Naqd wa-al-mujtamaʻ
  • France mère des arts?
  • Die Pariser Abende des Roland Barthes
  • 神话

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Writing · Cherbourg, Manche, France

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary…

Known for

  • Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: Le théâtre du langage — Self (archive footage)2015
  • Les vendredis d'Apostrophes — Self (archive footage)2015
  • Paris '50 - Existence imagined1981
  • The Bronte Sisters — William Makepeace Thackeray1979
  • Apostrophes — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1915
Active to
1980
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
430
Total plays
9,587

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Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/ROLAND+BARTHES">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

    · 2015 · cited 25,341x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,616x

  3. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

    · 2017 · cited 16,316x

  4. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

    · 2015 · cited 10,995x

  5. Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data

    · 2016 · cited 9,625x

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Quotes

  • “Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words.”
  • “La forme bâtarde de la culture de masse est la répétition honteuse: on répète les contenus, les schèmes idéologiques, le gommage des contradictions, mais on varie les formes superficielles: toujours des livres, des émissions, des films nouveaux, des faits divers, mais toujours le même sens.”
  • “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
  • “The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!”
  • “The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.”
  • “Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order&mdash;the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Roland Gérard Barthes (/bɑːrt/; French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism, and influenced the development of multiple schools of theory.

Barthes is particularly notable for his 1957 essay collection Mythologies, which contained reflections on popular culture, and the 1967/1968 essay "The Death of the Author", which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France.

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