Modern French Philosophy by Wicks Robert

Author:Wicks, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

For power seizes upon the pleasure of writing as it seizes upon all pleasure, to manipulate it and to make of it a product that is gregarious, nonperverse, in the same way that it seizes upon the genetic product of love’s pleasure, to turn it into soldiers and fighters to its own advantage. To shift ground, then, can mean: to go where you are not expected, or, more radically, to abjure what you have written (but not necessarily what you have thought), when gregarious power uses and subjugates it.287

With his emphasis upon text, pleasure, and the shifting of one’s ground, as these stand against the forces of meaning-solidification, institutionalization, and oppression, Barthes proposes a program of instruction that, as the Chair of Literary Semiology, he intends to institute:

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