'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished' In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all [...]

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth centurya s most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthesa s writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty ar[...]