The words and pages and chapters of this book are not written to shock the reader. But they do. Here, for the first time inmany decades, is a view of the forces that act on our lives as Americans. Here is a case, complete with impeccable...
Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. His...