Roland Barthes by Neil Badmington - 9780415472579

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Roland BarthesAuthor(s): Neil Badmington\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415472579, 978-0415472579\nSynopsis\nThirty years ago the English-speaking world was discovering the work of some of the key poststructuralist theorists for the first time: Jacques Derridas Of Grammatology had just appeared in translation, as had Roland Barthes S/Z, Jacques Lacans crits, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattaris Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucaults Discipline and Punish, and Pierre Machereys A Theory of Literary Production. English editions of Julia Kristevas Desire in Language and Jean-Franois Lyotards The Postmodern Condition were just around the corner.\n\nThe subsequent theory wars that raged on campuses in the 1980s are now generally seen as a thing of the past: poststructuralism is now, largely, a familiar and widely taught part of the academic landscape in the English-speaking world.\n\nOf all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes [tel] is probabl.