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Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his famous 1977 lecture series on "How to Live Together" at the Collège de France.
The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and "idiorrhytmic life forms" in literature, arts and other media.
The essays are written by 32 highly competent scholars from seven countries, representing literary studies, philosophy, social sciences, theology, church history, psychoanalysis, art history, architecture, media studies, history of ideas, and biology.
Knut Stene-Johansen (Dr. phil.), born in 1957, is Professor of Comparative Literature and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. In his research he uses concepts from the medical humanities, psychoanalysis, 18th century studies and historical and contemporary gastronomy.
Christian Refsum (Dr. Art.), born in 1962, is Professor of Comparative Literature, and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. He specializes in the fields of aesthetics, love studies and world literature.
Johan Schimanski (Dr. Art.), born in 1963, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and at present Head of Research at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. He is also a visiting research professor of cultural encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on border poetics, Arctic discourses, and literary exhibition practices.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction: "How to live together?": Roland Bar thes and the phantasme of idiorrhythmic life 9
AKãDIA/Akedia 21
ANAKHŸRãSIS/Anachoresis 29
ANIMAUX/Animals 43
ATHOS/Mount Athos 55
AUTARCIE/Autarky 65
BANC/School (of fish) 71
BEGUINAGES/Beguinages 79
BUREAUCRATIE/Bureaucracy 89
CAUSE/Cause 103
CHAMBRE/Room 117
CHEF/Chief 125
CLŸTURE/Enclosure 135
COLONIE/Colony 147
COUPLAGE/Pairing 153
DISTANCE/Distance 169
DOMESTIQUES/Servants 179
ÉCOUTE/Listen 187
ÉPONGE/Sponge 197
ÉVÉNEMENT/Event 207
FLEURS/Flowers 217
IDIORRHYTHMY/Idiorrhythmy 223
MARGINALITÉS/Marginalities 231
MONŸSIS/Monosis 237
NOMS/Names 249
NOURRITURE/Food 255
PROXÉMIE/Proxemics 267
RECTANGLE/Rectangle 277
RãGLE/Rule 283
SALETÉ/Dirtiness 291
UTOPIE/Utopia 299
XÉNITEIA/Xeniteia 313
Vita nova versus bios philosophikos: Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault 323
Contributors 335