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Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, but why should the reader of today, or tomorrow, be concerned with him? Martin McQuillan provides a fresh perspective on Barthes, addressing his political and institutional inheritance and considering his work as the origins of a critical cultural studies.

This stimulating study:
- provides a biographical consideration of Barthes' writing
- offers an extended reading of his 1957 text Mythologies as a text for our own time, drawing Barthes' work into a historical relation to the present
- examines his connection to what we call cultural studies
- features an annotated bibliography of Barthes' published work.

Thought-provoking and insightful, Roland Barthes is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the writings of this key theorist and his continuing relevance in our post-9/11 world.

Roland Barthes: (Or the Profession of Cultural Studies)

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Roland Barthes, About this Book.- R.B. Bio-Bibliography.- Reading Roland Barthes in a Time of Terror.- An Answer to the Question: What is Cultural Studies?.- Notes.- Annotated Bibliography.- Further Reading.- Index.