Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge.
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“The attention given to what I think is essential in my research-the semiotic and symbolic, rejection, negativity, practice, in particular their close connection with Husserl, Hagel, and Freud- is unique among works which have previously dealt with my books.” Julia Kristeva
“For this reader’s money. Payne’s discussion is the best non-polemical introduction to Lacan he has come across.” Jesse W. Nash, History of European Ideas
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Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge. His careful reading reveals their profound commitment to a critical understanding of how truth, meaning, and value are constituted in language and in non-verbal texts.
In his first three chapters, Payne examines in considerable detail brief texts by Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser that seem to be their own strategically designed introductions to their projects. The next three chapters take up the most important books by each of these writers: Foucault's The Order of Things, Barthes's S/Z, and Althusser's Reading Capital. Chapter 7 examines a specific text by each author writing on one of the visual arts, in an effort to investigate the assumption that knowledge - whether as theory, enlightenment, vision, illumination, or insight - is in some sense visual. The last chapter briefly examines the work of Gilles Deleuze.
Payne writes here with the same lucidity and acuity to be found in his highly successful companion to this volume, Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva (1993).
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Professor Payne takes extremely heavy texts, such as S/Z and makes them easier to understand. He has an extraordinary grasp of the subject matter that translates well to the classroom. I had the pleasure of taking his seminar in literary theory at Bucknell, and this book was one of the required texts.
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"Roland Barthes, who will doubtless be remembered as one of the most important literary critics of the twentieth century, was also a pioneer in the field of semiotics and the most generously eclectic cultural theorist of his time." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Alan Sheridan, Reading Theory, The Use of Language, Ben Brewster, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, James Miller, Louis Althusser, The Two Mysteries, Untimely Meditations, David Macey, Edward Said, Jacques Derrida, Johns Hopkins University Press, Richard Howard, The Family of Man, Adam Smith, Paul Rabinow, Stephen Heath, The Great Family of Man, Walter Kaufmann, David Couzens Hoy New!
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"Roland Barthes, who will doubtless be remembered as one of the most important literary critics of the twentieth century, was also a pioneer in the field of semiotics and the most generously eclectic cultural theorist of his time." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Alan Sheridan, Reading Theory, The Use of Language, Ben Brewster, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, James Miller, Louis Althusser, The Two Mysteries, Untimely Meditations, David Macey, Edward Said, Jacques Derrida, Johns Hopkins University Press, Richard Howard, The Family of Man, Adam Smith, Paul Rabinow, Stephen Heath, The Great Family of Man, Walter Kaufmann, David Couzens Hoy New!
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- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 23 pages
- Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series) by Louis Althusser on 10 pages
- The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
- Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida on 5 pages
- The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey on 4 pages
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