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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“To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The photographic image ... is a message without a code.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
—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)