num_pages: 128
description: With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.
language: English
title: Empire of Signs
titlecomplete: Empire of Signs
genres: Theory, Cultural, France, Philosophy, Japan, Nonfiction, Semiotics, Essays, Art, Criticism
ratings_count: 2234
publisher: Hill and Wang