How To Live Together: Novelistic Simulations Of Some Everyday Spaces (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)

By: Roland Barthes

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Synopsis: On March 14, 1976, following a recommendation made by Michel Foucault, the committee of professors elected Roland Barthes to Chair of Literary Semiology. The new professor would teach at the Collège de France until his death in the spring of 1980. The uncertain trajectory of Roland Barthes's career has often been noted: an academic with no agrégation qualification, a singular researcher who had spent much of his working life either abroad (Romania, Egypt, Morocco) or in the margins of the French university system. Barthes's meandering path culminated in a prestigious setting; even so, his election, secured by just a single vote, serves as a reminder of the intellectual and institutional resistance that has so often stalled the advancement of a singular thinker...

Book Quality:: Excellent
ISBN-13:: 9780231136174
Publisher:: Columbia University Press
Date of Addition:: 04/29/19
Copyrighted By:: Columbia University Press
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Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
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