Renowned specialist of Roland Barthes, Andy Stafford has co-edited Barthes’s 1968–1969 seminar notes on Sarrasine. His work on Barthes is translated into Chinese, French and Portuguese.

• Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter One ‘The dialectical logic of Love’; Chapter Two ‘Amorous dialectic’; Chapter Three ‘The People chorus’; Chapter Four ‘Double grasp’; Chapter Five ‘Stereographic space’; Chapter Six ‘Non-classifiable’; Chapter Seven ‘New Dialectic’; Chapter Eight ‘Opacity’; Chapter Nine ‘Undialectics’; Afterword: Essayism and the Politics of Writing; Bibliography; Index

‘This book is daring yet meticulous intervention into the myth of ‘an apolitical Barthes’ and a convincing foregrounding of ‘other spaces for critique to take place’. This enables the author to cast new light on a set of intertextual affinities between Barthes and Marx, thereby reinterpreting the former’s work in the context of a uniquely Marxist materialism or the ‘Capital of linguistics’. What emerges is a new insight into the multiple significances of Barthes’s preoccupation with paradox and dialectic.’—Fuhito Endo, Seikei University, Tokyo.

Renowned specialist of Roland Barthes, Andy Stafford has co-edited Barthes’s 1968–1969 seminar notes on Sarrasine. His work on Barthes is translated into Chinese, French and Portuguese.

• Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter One ‘The dialectical logic of Love’; Chapter Two ‘Amorous dialectic’; Chapter Three ‘The People chorus’; Chapter Four ‘Double grasp’; Chapter Five ‘Stereographic space’; Chapter Six ‘Non-classifiable’; Chapter Seven ‘New Dialectic’; Chapter Eight ‘Opacity’; Chapter Nine ‘Undialectics’; Afterword: Essayism and the Politics of Writing; Bibliography; Index

‘This book is daring yet meticulous intervention into the myth of ‘an apolitical Barthes’ and a convincing foregrounding of ‘other spaces for critique to take place’. This enables the author to cast new light on a set of intertextual affinities between Barthes and Marx, thereby reinterpreting the former’s work in the context of a uniquely Marxist materialism or the ‘Capital of linguistics’. What emerges is a new insight into the multiple significances of Barthes’s preoccupation with paradox and dialectic.’—Fuhito Endo, Seikei University, Tokyo.

Renowned specialist of Roland Barthes, Andy Stafford has co-edited Barthes’s 1968–1969 seminar notes on Sarrasine. His work on Barthes is translated into Chinese, French and Portuguese.

• Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter One ‘The dialectical logic of Love’; Chapter Two ‘Amorous dialectic’; Chapter Three ‘The People chorus’; Chapter Four ‘Double grasp’; Chapter Five ‘Stereographic space’; Chapter Six ‘Non-classifiable’; Chapter Seven ‘New Dialectic’; Chapter Eight ‘Opacity’; Chapter Nine ‘Undialectics’; Afterword: Essayism and the Politics of Writing; Bibliography; Index

‘This book is daring yet meticulous intervention into the myth of ‘an apolitical Barthes’ and a convincing foregrounding of ‘other spaces for critique to take place’. This enables the author to cast new light on a set of intertextual affinities between Barthes and Marx, thereby reinterpreting the former’s work in the context of a uniquely Marxist materialism or the ‘Capital of linguistics’. What emerges is a new insight into the multiple significances of Barthes’s preoccupation with paradox and dialectic.’—Fuhito Endo, Seikei University, Tokyo.