Reddit reviews The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Your tone betray's a sense of certainty about what you think you know, and that can be a trap friend. Imagine the things you could learn if you gave others the opportunity to say something new and to follow them down path's that you assume to be sloppy or lazy.

I just came across something in one of Barthes' late lectures that you may find surprising.

Maybe he had earned the right to be sloppy and lazy by virtue of his corpus of work, whereas grad students like us are forced to cower at the expectations of academia and disciplinary boundaries lest we try and say something different

http://imgur.com/DcIhsLG