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Empire of Signs (Paperback)

Empire of Signs By Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Translated by) Cover Image
By Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Translated by)
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.

About the Author


Richard Howard teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, USA. He has also translated works by Barthes, Foucault and Todorov.

Praise For…


“If Japan did not exist, Barthes would have had to invent it--not that Japan does exist in Empire of Signs, for Barthes is careful to point out that he is not analyzing the real Japan, there is no terrible innerness as in the West, no soul, no God, no fate, no ego, no grandeur, no metaphysics, no 'promotional fever' and finally no meaning . . . For Barthes Japan is a test, a challenge to think the unthinkable, a place where meaning is finally banished. Paradise, indeed, for the great student of signs.” —Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review


Product Details
ISBN: 9780374522070
ISBN-10: 0374522073
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Publication Date: September 1st, 1983
Pages: 128
Language: English
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