Reviews for Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today

The average rating for Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-04 00:00:00 Susan De Beer A very clear exposition of what is at stake at the boundaries of theology and philosophy in Barth and Derrida. There is also much more in this book than the title indicates, as there are chapters about Buber, Heidegger, and Levinas as well, not to mention the constant theme of the question of analogy in many of these thinkers.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-07 00:00:00 BArry Wagner More terrifying than the return of ghosts may be the prospect that there is nothing to return, no survival, no resurrection, and no commanding voice from beyond the grave; as Zizek puts it, 'it is not sufficient to say that we fear the spectre - the spectre itself already emerges out of a fear, out of our escape from something even more horrifying: freedom.