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Roland Barthes: Beyond Interpretation

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $315
  • 558 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $315
  • Five Myles @ 558 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions
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This course—an introduction to the thought of the French philosopher, literary theorist, linguist, and semiotician—asks how Barthes, who began his intellectual life as a committed disenchanter, evolved from architect of structuralist demystification to theorist of the scintillant, a field of investigation that encompassed questions of affect including pleasure, pain, bliss, love, and mourning. The rubric of the scintillating spurred Barthes’s formulation of, among other concepts, jouissance, the punctum, the third meaning, and the neutral. Concentrating on Barthes’ later writing, this class will consider his commitment to what lies beyond interpretation as well as the experimental critical forms he invented to accommodate his changing thought. What are the uses of a dictionary of scintillations? Why and how does one seek to pass beyond interpretation? What are the ethics, implicit and explicit, of Barthes’s critical practice? How should we understand elegiac, hedonistic, and eccentric ways of reading and writing and their possible claims to meaning, feeling, and politics?

Reading assignments will move from the early semiotic analysis of Mythologies to the “novelistic” late writing and may include selections from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Camera Lucida, The Neutral, and Mourning Diary. Supplementary texts will draw on the writing of Barthes’s intellectual inheritors, such as Wayne Koestenbaum, Maggie Nelson, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

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  • Upon request, we will refund less 5% cancellation fee of a course up until 6 business days before its start date.
  • Students who withdraw after that point but before the first class are entitled to 75% refund or full course credit.
  • After the first class: 50% refund or 75% course credit.
  • No refunds or credits will be given after the second class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research was established in 2011 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Its mission is to extend liberal arts education and research far beyond the borders of the traditional university, supporting community education needs and opening up new possibilities for scholarship in the...

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