Main entry:

Barthes, Roland, author.

Title & Author:

How to live together : novelistic simulations of some everyday spaces / Roland Barthes ; translated by Kate Briggs.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013.

Description:

xxx, 222 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

European perspectives

Notes:
"Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Colláege de France (1976-1977)."
"Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Colláege de France (1976-1977)"-- T.p
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.
Introduction -- Akèdia/ Akedia, acedy -- Anachôrèsis/ Anachoresis -- Animaux/ animals -- Athos/ athos, Mount Athos -- Athos/ Athos (continued) -- Autarcie/ Autarky -- Banc/ school -- Béguinages/ beguinages -- Bureaucretie/ bureaucracy -- Cause/ cause -- Chambre/ room -- Chambre/ room (continued) -- Chef/ chief -- Clôture/ enclosure -- Colonie D'Anachorètes/ colony of Anachorites -- Couplage/ pairing -- Distance/ distance -- Domestiques/ servants -- Écoute/ hearing -- Éponge/ sponge -- Événement/ event -- Fleurs/ flowers -- Idyllique/ Idyll -- Marginalités/ marginalities -- Monôsis/ monosis -- Noms/ names -- Noms/ names (continued) -- Nourriture/ food -- Proxémie/ proxemics -- Rectangle/ rectangle -- Règle/ rule -- Saleté/ dirtiness -- Xéniteia/ xeniteia -- Utopie/ utopia -- But what about method? -- What is it to hold forth?/ Tenir un discours -- Research on invested speech -- Seminar -- Holding forth -- Charlus-discourse -- Charlus-discourse (continued).

Summary:

"A series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace ... a key introduction to Barthess pedagogical methods and critical worldview. In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of "idiorrhythmy," a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five texts that represent different living spaces and their associated ways of life: Émile Zola's Pot-Bouille, set in a Parisian apartment building; Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which takes place in a sanatorium; André Gide's La Séquestrée de Poitiers, based on the true story of a woman confined to her bedroom; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, about a castaway on a remote island; and Pallidius's Lausiac History, detailing the ascetic lives of the desert fathers"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780231136167 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231136161 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780231136174 (ebook)
023113617X (ebook)

Subject:

Philosophy, Modern 20th century.
Philology.
Literature History and criticism.
Philosophie 20e siècle.
Philologie.
Littérature Histoire et critique.
philology.
Literature
Philosophy, Modern

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Briggs, Kate (Teacher), translator.
European perspectives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282298
Call No.: BIB 219689
Status: Available