Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Viola Brisolin

ISBN 10: 3034302312 / ISBN 13: 9783034302319

Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Jun 2011, 2011

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative approaches. Certain themes recur insistently in the works of both men: the pervasiveness of power and the violence inherent in the modernising process; the possibility of freedom and subjective autonomy; and the role of creative practices in a society configured as a desert of alienation. Despite this common ground, no systematic attempt at reading the two authors together has been made before now. This book explores this uncharted territory by comparing these two intellectual figures, focusing in particular on the similarities and productive tensions that emerge in their late works. Psychoanalysis plays a key role in the articulation of this comparison. 297 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Jun 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034302312
• ISBN 13: 9783034302319
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 155H x 17D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 470 grams

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Synopsis

Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative approaches. Certain themes recur insistently in the works of both men: the pervasiveness of power and the violence inherent in the modernising process; the possibility of freedom and subjective autonomy; and the role of creative practices in a society configured as a desert of alienation. Despite this common ground, no systematic attempt at reading the two authors together has been made before now. This book explores this uncharted territory by comparing these two intellectual figures, focusing in particular on the similarities and productive tensions that emerge in their late works. Psychoanalysis plays a key role in the articulation of this comparison.

About the Author

Viola Brisolin was awarded her PhD in Comparative Literature by University College London, where she was also Marie Curie Research Fellow and a teaching assistant. Her research interests include post-war French thought and narrative, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and theories of subjectivity.