by Roland Barthes · ISBN 9782020046053
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The desire to know, but also the disturbing experience of embarrassment and groping, give philosophical reflection its erotic dimension. For the same reasons, love is philosophy: the lover tears himself away from his own point of view to bring the gaze of another upon himself and the world, suffers the test of doubt after enthusiasm, and nourishes his reflection with uncertainties. He no longer knows what he knows, seeks his words, does not know how to define the loved one, and fears being foolish. This essential hesitation frees him from presumption and idiocy. The idiot, in effect, does not know love and its disorders: he is everywhere at home, never disturbed or bothered by anyone.
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism, and influenced the development of multiple schools of theory.
