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The contributors to Interdisciplinary Barthes may have found my editing pedantic, but I have learned an extraordinary amount from engaging with the fine detail of their arguments; after some thirty years of research on Roland Barthes, I find my head full of new projects. This is partly because the Barthes of this book is not the same Barthes I first worked on in the 1980s. At the time of his death, Barthes’s published oeuvre was already extensive and very diverse, and was the object of intense critical, theoretical, and public interest. Yet a very large proportion of the material discussed here was either not known to exist or was not in the public domain; from the very early twenty-first century through to the 2015 centenary of his birth, the Barthesian corpus has expanded dramatically and in directions that mean this book has only recently become possible.

In fact, a number of contributors have themselves been central to this expansion. In 2015 Éric Marty, who has overall responsibility for the publication of Barthes’s posthumous works, edited a very significant selection of his correspondence, while Tiphaine Samoyault, granted full access to the Roland Barthes Archive, published a major new biography. Claude Coste, Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Andy Stafford, and Maria O’Sullivan have produced scholarly editions of Barthes’s Collège de France lectures and his earlier teaching seminars at the École pratique des hautes études, while those from later generations and embarking on doctoral research on Barthes in the twenty-first century, were able to work on this important pedagogical material from the outset (Lucy O’Meara and Kris Pint published the first dedicated monographs on the Collège de France lectures). Others, as well as their research on Barthes, bring distinctive expertise to the volume, such as Stephen Bann (historiography), Patrizia Lombardo (theory of the emotions), Marielle Macé (the French essay tradition), François Noudelmann (philosophy and musicology), and Kathrin Yacavone (photography history and theory). Jonathan Culler, Michael Moriarty, and Philippe Roger were amongst the earliest authors of wide-ranging monographs on Barthes, while Antoine Compagnon (like Lombardo and Marty, a former student of Barthes) convened and subsequently edited the famous 1977 Cerisy colloquium around his work. All of the contributors have significant interdisciplinary interests in addition to their profound knowledge of Barthes. This multi-layered knowledge-base provides the research hinterland of the new essays collected here, and is woven into the intellectual fabric of the volume as a whole.

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