Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community

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Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his famous 1977 lecture series, How to Live Together, at the Collège de France. The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and idiorrhythmic life forms in literature, arts, and other media. The essays are written by thirty-two distinguished scholars from seven countries, representing literary studies, philosophy, social sciences, theology, church history, psychoanalysis, art history, architecture, media studies, history of ideas, and biology Cover Contents Introduction: "How to live together?": Roland Bar thes and the phantasme of idiorrhythmic life AKÈDIA/Akedia ANAKHÔRÈSIS/Anachoresis ANIMAUX/Animals ATHOS/Mount Athos AUTARCIE/Autarky BANC/School (of fish) BEGUINAGES/Beguinages BUREAUCRATIE/Bureaucracy CAUSE/Cause CHAMBRE/Room CHEF/Chief CLÔTURE/Enclosure COLONIE/Colony COUPLAGE/Pairing DISTANCE/Distance DOMESTIQUES/Servants ÉCOUTE/Listen ÉPONGE/Sponge ÉVÉNEMENT/Event FLEURS/Flowers IDIORRHYTHMY/Idiorrhythmy MARGINALITÉS/Marginalities MONÔSIS/Monosis NOMS/Names NOURRITURE/Food PROXÉMIE/Proxemics. RECTANGLE/RectangleRÈGLE/Rule SALETÉ/Dirtiness UTOPIE/Utopia XÉNITEIA/Xeniteia Vita nova versus bios philosophikos: Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault Contributors.