An excellent introduction to the intellectual Roland Barthes, whose distinctive philosophy incorporates art, literature and diverse aspects of mainstream culture.
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the
image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time,
someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several
steps in a penetrating reflection on language, sign systems, texts
- and what they have to tell us about the concept of the human
*New Republic*
Susan Sontag contributes an informative introduction to this
collection and arranges his greatest hits chronologically... This
is an excellent entree to a thinker whose precepts have often
filtered down into mass culture
*Glasgow Herald*
Barthes's work, along with that of Wilde and Valéry, gives being an
aesthete a good name... Defending the senses, he never betrayed the
mind
*Susan Sontag*
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