How to Live Together
How to Live Together
Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces : Notes for a lecture course and seminar at the Collège de France (1976-1977)
by Roland Barthes ; translated by Kate Briggs ; text established, annotated, and introduced by Claude Coste

Auteur(s)
Roland Barthes, Claude Coste
Uitgever, jaar
New York : Columbia University, 2013
Omvang
222 p., 26 cm.
ISBN
9780231136174

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.


Trefwoorden
sociologie / sociology , kinship
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map
Bevat
index , bibliography