20th century · 1915–1980
Who influenced Roland Barthes?
Influences and legacy
Mythologies and the death of the author made semiology a cultural critique.
Roland Barthes was influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure and Émile Benveniste, and went on to influence Gérard Genette. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Roland Barthes?
Roland Barthes analysed sign systems, mostly drawn from Western popular culture, and his ideas crossed structuralism, anthropology, literary theory and post-structuralism. He taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Collège de France.
He is best known for Mythologies (1957), essays on popular culture, and for "The Death of the Author" (1967), a challenge to traditional literary criticism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Roland Barthes?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
Who did Roland Barthes influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Roland Barthes.
- Gérard Genette 1930–2018
The line of teachers behind Roland Barthes
The longest documented line of influence ending at Roland Barthes runs 2 generations back, to Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Émile Benveniste
- Roland Barthes
Contemporaries of Roland Barthes
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Roland Barthes, with no direct line between them.
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Donald Davidson 1917–2003
- Algirdas Julien Greimas 1917–1992
- Louis Althusser 1918–1990
- Wilfrid Sellars 1912–1989
- J. L. Austin 1911–1960
- G. E. M. Anscombe 1919–2001
- P. F. Strawson 1919–2006
Roland Barthes by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 2
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 66 — #30 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Roland Barthes
- Who influenced Roland Barthes?
- Ferdinand de Saussure and Émile Benveniste.
- Who did Roland Barthes influence?
- Gérard Genette.
- When did Roland Barthes live?
- 1915–1980. The map files Roland Barthes under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Roland Barthes card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Roland Barthes in 66 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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