SYLLA, Bernhard. Roland Barthes: “A língua é fascista”: aproximações a um topos da filosofia do século XX. []. , 29, 2, pp.135-147. ISSN 0807-8967.

In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, Roland Barthes used the phrase that appears in the title of this essay. Nowadays, this phrase sounds rather strange and, at first glance, difficult to understand. The aim of this essay is to show that this phrase is associated with a philosophical theme, whose emergence is linked to a specific reception of the fundamental ideas of structuralism. The articulation of this theme is binary, opposing two antagonistic instances: a system that has a maximum and ubiquitous power, and the individual speaking and acting that combats this system. Barthes sees this opposition as aporetic and dilemmatic, and explicitly draws an analogy between language and politics. This paper aims at clarifying the specific configuration of this theme in Barthes, mentioning only tangentially the presence of this theme in other authors of the twentieth-century philosophy.

: Barthes; structuralism; post-structuralism; language; power.

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