Living Together - Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community

by Knut Stene-Johansen (Editor), Christian Refsum (Editor), Johan Schimanski (Editor)

Overview

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 on "How to Live Together" at the Collège de France.
The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and "idiorrhytmic life forms" in literature, arts and other media.
The essays are written by 32 highly competent scholars from seven countries, representing literary studies, philosophy, social sciences, theology, church history, psychoanalysis, art history, architecture, media studies, history of ideas, and biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837644319
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Series:	Culture & Theory
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Knut Stene-Johansen (Dr. phil.), born in 1957, is Professor of Comparative Literature and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. In his research he uses concepts from the medical humanities, psychoanalysis, 18th century studies and historical and contemporary gastronomy.
Christian Refsum (Dr. Art.), born in 1962, is Professor of Comparative Literature, and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. He specializes in the fields of aesthetics, love studies and world literature.
Johan Schimanski (Dr. Art.), born in 1963, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and at present Head of Research at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. He is also a visiting research professor of cultural encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on border poetics, Arctic discourses, and literary exhibition practices.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "How to live together?": Roland Barthes and the phantasme of idiorrhythmic life 9

Akèdia/Akedia Kjersti Bale 21

Anakhôrèsis/Anachoresis Knut Ove Eliassen 29

Animaux/Animals Peter J. Meedom 43

Athos/Mount Athos Rolv Nøtvik Jakobsen 55

Autarcie/Autarky Arne Melberg 65

Banc/School (of fish) Dag O. Hessen 71

Beguinages/Begulnages Thomas Fechner-Smarsly 79

Bureaucratie/Bureaucracy Robert Pfaller 89

Cause/Cause Hilde Bondevik 103

Chambre/Room Mari Lending 117

Chef/Chief Fredrik Engelstad 125

Clôture/Enclosure Mette Birkedal Bruun 135

Colonie/Colony Iver B. Neumann 147

Couplage/Pairing Eivind Røssaak 153

Distance/Distance Inga Bostad 169

Domestiques/Servants Corina Stan 179

Écoute/Listen Christian Refsum 187

Éponge/Sponge Jennifer Friedlander 197

Événement/Event Hans Hauge 207

Fleurs/Flowers Kaja Schjerven Mollrin 217

Idiorrhythmy/ldiorrhythmy Frederik Tygstrup 223

Marginalités/Marginalities Eivind Tjønneland 231

Monôsis/Monosis Svein Haugsgjerd 237

Noms/Names Karin Gundersen 249

Nourriture/Food Knut Stene-Johansen 255

Proxémie/Proxemics Reinhold Görling 267

Rectangle/Rectangle Adrian Forty 277

Règle/Rule Stian Grøgaard 283

Saleté/Dirtiness Thomas Hylland Eriksen 291

Utopie/Utopia Tereza Kuldova 299

Xéniteia/Xeniteia Johan Schimanski 313

Vita nova versus bios philosophikos: Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault Éric Marty 323

Contributors 335