Tag Archives: Roland Barthes

Machiavelli and Althusser: Atheism and Anti-Humanism Pushed To Their Most Radical Extremes

Below is a letter I wrote to a friend, on the subject of what contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida calls “White Mythologies”. I’m posting it here because of its relation to you. Not all of you will care to read … Continue reading

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The Mouth before The Voice: Food, Fantasies, The Mother

Here’s a book review I wrote just this morning. Tangential though it may seem to our concerns, I hope it will help at least a few of you in your reading of Augustine. * * * It is wearisome to … Continue reading

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Solitary Reveries and Self-Conception

Proust gave modern writing its epic. By a radical reversal, instead of putting his life into his novel, as is so often maintained, he made of his very life a work for which his own book was the model; so … Continue reading

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