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Roland Barthes [1915-1980] French

Rank: 102
Critic, Philosopher

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.

Knowledge, Nature, Society, Truth

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.	Society	101
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.		102
The photographic image... is a message without a code.		103
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.		104
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.	Truth	105
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.	Nature	106
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.		107
Literature is the question minus the answer.		108
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.		109
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.		110
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.		111
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.		112
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.		113
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.		114
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.		115
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.		116
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.	Knowledge	117
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.		118
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.		119
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!		120

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