Proper noun
Barthes (plural Bartheses)
A surname from French.
As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know." Bernard Williams
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' Jeffrey Eugenides
According to Barthes, the function of a wrestler is not to win: it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of them and to give the audience a theatrical spectacle. Source: Internet
Antihumanists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as Roland Barthes challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the notion of the 'individual' itself. Source: Internet
Barthes explained that these bourgeois cultural myths were second-order signs, or connotations. Source: Internet
Barthes argued that it should be looked at not as a scamming of the ignorant, but as spectacle ; a mode of theatric performance for a willing, if bloodthirsty, audience. Source: Internet