Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes,
Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus
on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge.
His careful reading reveals their profound commitment to a critical
understanding of how truth, meaning, and value are constituted in
language and in non-verbal texts.
In his first three chapters, Payne examines in considerable
detail brief texts by Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser that seem to
be their own strategically designed introductions to their
projects. The next three chapters take up the most important books
by each of these writers: Foucault's "The Order of Things,"
Barthes's "S/Z," and Althusser's "Reading Capital." Chapter 7
examines a specific text by each author writing on one of the
visual arts, in an effort to investigate the assumption that
knowledge - whether as theory, enlightenment, vision, illumination,
or insight - is in some sense visual. The last chapter briefly
examines the work of Gilles Deleuze.
Payne writes here with the same lucidity and acuity to be found
in his highly successful companion to this volume, "Reading Theory:
An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva" (1993).
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