To instil into the Established Order the complacent portray… - Roland Barthes

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To instil into the Established Order the complacent portrayal of its drawbacks has nowadays become a paradoxical but incontrovertible means of exalting it.

Roland Barthes

Mythologies · 1972 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.

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Alternative Names: Roland Gérard Barthes

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