Lucy O'Meara

Roland Barthes at the Coll√®ge de France studies the four lecture courses given by Barthes in Paris between 1977 and 1980. This study, the first full-length account of this material, places Barthes‚Äôs teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing the texts and recordings of Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and La Pr√©paration du roman I et II in tandem with Barthes‚Äôs 1970s output, the book brings together for the first time all the strands of Barthes‚Äôs activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Lucy O‚ÄôMeara‚Äôs study focuses particularly on Barthes‚Äôs pedagogical style, addressing how his wilfully un-magisterial teaching links to the anti-systematic, anti-dogmatic goals of the rest of his work. Roland Barthes at the Coll√®ge de France reassesses the critical and ethical priorities of Barthes‚Äôs work in the decade before his death, demonstrating the vitally affirmative core of Barthes‚Äôs late thought.

Roland Barthes at the Coll√®ge de France

Lucy O'Meara

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