![]() ![]() ![]() Barthes echoes such remarks in his inaugural lecture. Foucault refers to Barthes' work as trendy and faddish, yet equally notes how the work reveals ‘existence of more deep-rooted and fertile cultural phenomena', and suggests the importance of hearing from ‘outside the university'. Louis-Jean Calvet (1994) reveals how Michel Foucault's report sponsoring Barthes' professorship is somewhat double-edged. His acceptance of the Chair of Literary Semiology at the Collège de France can be understood as something of a disruption to the establishment. The beginning of his life was severely hampered by tuberculosis, forcing him to spend much of his time in a sanatorium, and his death came prematurely at the age of 64, just five years after taking up the prestigious role of professor at the Collège de France. ![]() Roland Barthes' relatively short career spans the period of the 1950s through to the end of the 1970s. ![]()
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