Roland Barthes
Citation
Roland Barthes. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-02 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Recorded here as the biographical anchor for the homepage people-grid card and the /reception/ page when a Tier 1/2 Barthes biography (e.g., Tiphaine Samoyault’s 2015 Roland Barthes: A Biography) is not yet directly fetched in this repo.
Relevance
Barthes is the author of “La grande famille des hommes” in Mythologies (1957) — one of the foundational early critiques of The Family of Man as humanist universalism that naturalises social difference. His critique is anchored at Tier 2 in src-barthes-1957-mythologies and src-barthes-1957-mythologies-fr (in repo). This pointer adds Wikipedia-level biographical context (birth, death, nationality) that the Mythologies source files do not themselves carry.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim from the article (fetched 2026-05-02):
- Birth: 12 November 1915 in Cherbourg, Manche, France.
- Death: 26 March 1980 in Paris, France (struck by a laundry van on 25 February 1980; died of his injuries one month later).
- Nationality: French.
- Profession: literary theorist, philosopher, semiotician, essayist.
- Mythologies (1957): contains the essay “La grande famille des hommes” critiquing The Family of Man exhibition (cross-referenced from
src-barthes-1957-mythologiesin repo).
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.mdWikipedia is treated as a pointer source — the 1915 Cherbourg birth and 1980 Paris death should be promoted to Tier 1 / Tier 2 against a Barthes biography (Samoyault 2015 is the canonical recent biography in English) before being cited as authoritative. - Cross-references:
src-barthes-1957-mythologies(in repo, Tier 2 anchor for the Family of Man critique itself),src-barthes-1957-mythologies-fr(in repo, Tier 2 anchor for the original French text).