Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Bartheswas a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth12 November 1915
CountryFrance
Roland Barthes quotes about
wine snacks speech
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
love-is lasts kind
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
reading guests process
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
desire may encounters
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
names two profound
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.
modern bother
All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.
power guilt blame
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
pain literature choke
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.
love-you degrees scruples
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
father oedipus law
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?
dream unions gestures
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other...
writing mad motto
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
love-you mourning facts
Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
sentimental
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.