"Simply a Particular Contemporary": Interviews, 1970–79A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovatoroften as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to anotherhe first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth