{"product_id":"roland-barthes-9780415472579","title":"Roland Barthes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years ago the English-speaking world was discovering the work of some of the key poststructuralist theorists for the first time: Jacques Derrida's \u003cem\u003eOf Grammatology\u003c\/em\u003e had just appeared in translation, as had Roland Barthes' \u003cem\u003eS\/Z\u003c\/em\u003e, Jacques Lacan's \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's \u003cem\u003eAnti-Oedipus\u003c\/em\u003e, Michel Foucault's \u003cem\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/em\u003e, and Pierre Macherey's \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Literary Production\u003c\/em\u003e. English editions of Julia Kristeva's \u003cem\u003eDesire in Language\u003c\/em\u003e and Jean-François Lyotard's \u003cem\u003eThe Postmodern Condition\u003c\/em\u003e were just around the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subsequent theory wars' that raged on campuses in the 1980s are now generally seen as a thing of the past: poststructuralism is now, largely, a familiar and widely taught part of the academic landscape in the English-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes (191580) is probably the most widely read. \u003cem\u003eMythologies\u003c\/em\u003e has sold hundreds of thous\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733844943191,"sku":"9780415472579","price":641.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415472579.jpg?v=1782118806","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roland-barthes-9780415472579","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}