Roland Barthes quotes - page 3
Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, influential in the development of structuralism and post-structuralism. His works examined the nature of language, literature, and culture in modern society. He contributed significantly to semiotics and changed the way people interpret texts. Here are 68 of his quotes:
The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.
Roland Barthes
The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.
Roland Barthes
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.
Roland Barthes
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
Roland Barthes
A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.
A Text, on the other hand is engaged in a movement ... a deferral ... a dilation of meaning ... the play of signification.
Metonymy - the association of part to whole - characterized the logic of the Text.
In this sense the Text is "radically symbolic" and lacks closure.
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: November 12, 1915
Died: March 26, 1980
Quotes count: 68
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