Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there … - Roland Barthes

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Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.

Roland Barthes

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 · July 13, 2005 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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