PHILOSOPHER

Roland Barthes

1915 - 1980

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Roland Gérard Barthes (; French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Barthes has received more than 2,335,018 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Roland Barthes is the 104th most popular philosopher (down from 99th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from France (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Philosopher.

Roland Barthes is most famous for his book "The Death of the Author." In this book, he argues that the author's intention is not the final word on a text. Rather, the text should be interpreted and analyzed from the perspective of the reader.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Roland Barthes ranks 104 out of 1,267. Before him are George Gurdjieff, Roger Bacon, Anaximenes of Miletus, Al-Tabari, Aristippus, and Jacques Derrida. After him are Meister Eckhart, Zhu Xi, Emil Cioran, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, and Tertullian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Roland Barthes ranks 7. Before him are Édith Piaf, Augusto Pinochet, Anthony Quinn, Moshe Dayan, Frank Sinatra, and Ingrid Bergman. After him are Vasily Zaitsev, Yitzhak Shamir, David Rockefeller, Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, and Eli Wallach. Among people deceased in 1980, Roland Barthes ranks 9. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon, Jean Piaget, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Erich Fromm. After him are Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, Steve McQueen, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, and Joe Dassin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roland Barthes ranks 208 out of 6,770. Before him are François Truffaut (1932), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jean Marais (1913), and Jean-Luc Godard (1930). After him are Margaret of Valois (1553), Charles IV of France (1294), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Pope Clement IV (1190), and Pope Urban IV (1185).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Roland Barthes ranks 10. Before him are Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Peter Abelard (1079), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), and Jean Bodin (1530). After him are Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Jean Buridan (1295), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).

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