Barthes
Americannoun
noun
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Of this lineup of serial offenders, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty had prior convictions, mostly for communism, and only Barthes had a sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Between Barthes and Berlant, Alanis gets to have the black fly in her chardonnay and drink it, too.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
Barthes concludes, “but to conceive the inconceivable, i.e., to leave nothing outside the words and to concede nothing ineffable to the world.”
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2023
Serpell teaches seminars on subjects as varied as Toni Morrison and the French philosopher Roland Barthes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
The purpose of such irrelevant details—the pewter plates, the glorious eggs—is to create what Roland Barthes called ‘the reality effect’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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