num_pages: 122
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: The Empire of Signs
titlecomplete: The Empire of Signs
genres: Essays, Art, Philosophy, Cultural, Semiotics, Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Japan, France
ratings_count: 2234
publisher: Hill and Wang