The strange world of Roland Barthes: some points of criticism

SUMMARY

Against the background of Mary Wisemen, Sándor Hervey and Vincent Leitch's discussion of Roland Barthes' work, the author discusses some of the important points of criticism against Barthes as a semiologist and as a social critic. In spite of this criticism he comes to the conclusion that Barthes opens new perspectives for communication science concerning meaning and in particular meaning created in and through media such as photography.