What to Read After Barthes
Readers who loved Barthes by Jonathan Culler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Barthes is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Barthes
Foucault
Beauty
Critical Theory Today
Post-structuralism
Freud
The Meaning of Life
Plato
The Penguin dictionary of critical theory
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Aristotle
Art Theory
Heidegger
Postmodernism
Postcolonialism
Quantum Physics and Theology
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Vol. A
Civil Engineering
Roland Barthes
Discipline and Punish
The Lover
Disgrace
Stoner
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Fun Home