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"Roland Barthes -- the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida -- was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism -- 2 The Great Family of Man -- 3 The Instinct -- 4 The Wretched of the Earth -- 5 The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences -- 6 Marxism and Humanism -- 7 Prophylaxis and Virulence -- 8 Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman? -- 9 Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs -- 10 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century -- 11 Posthumanist (Com)Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass -- 12 Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System -- 13 Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital -- 14 Can Thought Go On Without a Body? -- Summaries and Notes -- Glossary -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.