Roland Barthes' The Death of the Author and The Death of God

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5 ай бұрын

This is a discussion of Roland Barthes’ The Death of the Author. I take issue with many of his assumptions but also make much of the fact that he regards his framework to be based on incontestable assertions.
I ultimately trace his assertion that authorship began in the nineteenth century to the perspective on the author given to us Romanticism, and note the echo in Barthes of Nietzche’s claim that “God is dead, and we have killed him.”
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@jimsteele9559 4 ай бұрын

Another great lecture and is appreciated. Not sure I agree that the only difference between age of reason (enlightenment) thinking and the counter-enlightenment is emphasis on feelings. Pretty sure Isaiah Berlin points out more. But I’m following along and loving these lectures as I can get to them. Now Dr. Masson has a series on Hamlet. Can’t wait. Shakespeare is great and I don’t care what anybody says to the contrary.

@andreyrussian2480 4 ай бұрын

Romantics care more about taste, aftertaste and flavor of art, some power to use. And there is another power of text - spirit of the text, cunning, playful etc.

@Drillcass11 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for these videos. They have been helpful to me. I'm pausing six minutes only to say that Religious Study today hardly does comparative studies of religion (classically termed phenomenology/history religions) inasmuch as it has given way to very postmodern/poststructural discourses you're critiquing. Many scholars in the RS field, bent on taking "criticial approaches to religion," question the very tenability of the concept of "religion" as a romantic and modern idea well as of the whole enterprise of "'Religious' Studies." It is depressing and feels almost as if scholars in the field are compromising their whole reason-for-being scholars of religion.

@LitProf 4 ай бұрын

Agreed. It’s Religious Studies following Literary theory down the path that led to the demise of English literature.