Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was 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, anthropology and post-structuralism.
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“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: ‘Who am I?’, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: ‘Am I?’ A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)