Professor Neil Badmington 
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes 

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.