Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self Stafford Andrew
Roland Barthes and the Political: Dialectics of Historiography, Politics and Self is a re-reading and a re-purposing for the twenty-first century of the work and the critical theories of France's most…
Specifikacia Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self Stafford Andrew
Roland Barthes and the Political: Dialectics of Historiography, Politics and Self is a re-reading and a re-purposing for the twenty-first century of the work and the critical theories of France's most important writer of the twentieth century. Drawing on articles and chapters published since 2007, and including new material written for the volume, it argues that Barthes's wide-ranging analyses and critical essays - from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan - can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world. By applying his 1958 essay on Voltaire to the aftermath in France of the 2015 terrorist attacks, by using Edouard Glissant's work as an unspoken dialogue to look at post-colonial writing strategies, the volume sets out what a dialectical critical practice might look like in our complex world of political, ethical and aesthetic
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