A Barthes Reader

A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time someone who thought out argued for and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontags prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.