... and Roland Barthes demonstrate, ideology is not committed to dissimulating its machinations, but thrives precisely by explaining how it works. We must think of language before or beyond its use value as a medium of action, production, or signification, that is, without asking what it does for us or against...

... is impressively conveyed in lectures given by Roland Barthes on the topic at the Collège de France in 1977–78, which were published in 2002, though it must be said that the lectures also constitute an embarrassment of riches — playful testimony, as it were, to the neuter's extravagant history. Blanchot Maurice...

... perspective. Throughout her pages, Furst refers to the stimulus provided to her own thought by the work of Roland Barthes in his structuralist phase. All is True The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction Furst Balzac Honoré de Formalism literary realism and Furst Lilian Le Père Goriot Balzac novel...

... of Rumi” Tourage “In the Daylight Forever? Language and Silence” Ward “Occultation of the Feminine and the Body of Secrecy in Medieval Kabbalah” Wolfson Sermon Tourage Mahdi Apophasis Semiotics Seduction Theology Umberto Eco Augustine Valentinus Jean Baudrillard Roland Barthes Like a child...

... will discover revealed knowledge on the nature of Christ and of the scriptures. This chapter examines Origen’s exegesis through the lens of what Roland Barthes called “written-clothing,” an infusion of garments with definitive value through descriptions and associations that make them signifiers of cultural...

... Schmitt Carl violence Laxton Susan Alighieri Dante body metaphor Ovid Perper Timothy potentiality sex The Odyssey Sirens Georg Simmel flirtation Sigmund Freud coquetry sociability Martin Heidegger Theodor Adorno Roland Barthes Niklas Luhmann Sigmund Freud did not hold flirtation...

...This chapter explores the uncanny link between photography and the mother in Roland Barthes' final book Camera Lucida, asking why his reflections on the ontology of photography ultimately take the form of an autobiographical elegy to his dead mother. Barthes' text establishes...

...This chapter examines Roland Barthes' gloss on Charles Clifford's nineteenth-century photograph “Alhambra” in Camera Lucida and explores how, via this image, Barthes conjures up an alternative model of temporality that he calls “utopian time” and which he associates with a return...

...According to Roland Barthes, one of the surprising things about speech is that no erasing is involved, only going forward and only Yes. The same goes with becoming; it never erases and never goes back. There is only Yes in becoming. The beautiful bruise on a battered cheek raises the question...

.... In this way, kethoprak becomes a popular form of participatory democracy. It also shares many characteristic elements with Ignatian Spirituality via Roland Barthes interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Susanto identifies in both...