Roland Barthes Writing the Political

<p>Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History Dialectics Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France's most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes's wide-ranging analyses - from Voltaire to Nietzsche Marx to myth gay love to Japan - can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world in what he called the writer's 'double grasp'.</p>