{"product_id":"9789810979034","title":"For The Pleasure of The Text ...","description":"At the heart of this book lies attempts to read: reading here being understood as the\u003cp\u003eopenness to the possibility of another; a relation that occurs prior to any semantic or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eformal identification, and, therefore, prior to any attempt at assimilating, or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappropriating, what is being read to the one who reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus, an event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with Lim Lee Ching's reading of this book; a reading before your reading, as \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit were. And is followed by Jeremy Fernando's attempts to respond to the many \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes - all whilst foregrounding the risk that, even as one attempts to read \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas openness to the possibility of another, all reading potentially re-writes the other; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat his reading may well be an inscribing of his R.B.; that whilst reading it, you may \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewell be making your very own R.B.. In the midst of which, you will find a piano score \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomposed by Jachin Pousson: which is both a nod to the fact that Barthes was a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epianist, and also a note to the musicality of the thought of Roland Barthes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hope is that these readings bring, open the possibility of, pleasure: not just for \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe one who reads, but perhaps even for - if one allows oneself to imagine - the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etext. For the one we call, name - can do nothing but name - Roland Barthes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delere Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065232441584,"sku":"9789810979034","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789810979034_p0.jpg?v=1763690157","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789810979034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}