What Is an Author?
What is an Author? is an influential lecture given by French philosopher, sociologist and historian Michel Foucault on literary theory.[1]
The work considers the relationship between author, text, and reader; concluding that:
“The Author is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses: (…) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.”
For many, Foucault's lecture responds to Roland Barthes' essay Death of the Author.
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- Introduction to Kant's Anthropology (1964)
- What Is an Author? (1969)
- Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France
- I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister and my Brother (1973)
- Language, Counter-Memory, Practice (1977)
- Sexual Morality and the Law (1978)
- Herculine Barbin (1978)
- Power/Knowledge (1980)
- Remarks on Marx (1980)
- Le Désordre des familles (1982)
- The Foucault Reader (1984)
- Politics, Philosophy, Culture (1988)
- Foucault Live (1996)
- The Politics of Truth (1997)
- Society Must Be Defended (1997)
- Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works Volume 1) (1997)
- Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Volume 2) (1998)
- Abnormal (1999)
- Power (Essential Works Volume 3) (2000)
- Fearless Speech (2001)
- The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2001)
- The Essential Foucault (2003)
- Psychiatric Power (2003)
- Security, Territory, Population (2004)
- The Birth of Biopolitics (2004)
- The Government of Self and Others (2008)
- The Courage of Truth (2009)
- Lectures on the Will to Know (2011)
- On the Government of the Living (2012)
- Subjectivity and Truth (2012)
- Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling (2013)
- On the Punitive Society (2015)
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