Roland Barthes Writing The Political Av Andrew Stafford

<p>Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France''s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes''s wide-ranging analyses - from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan - can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer''s ''double grasp''.</p>