What Is an Author?

"What Is an Author?" (French: Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?) 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 "The Death of the Author".

References

↑ Michel Foucault: "What Is an Author?" by Professor Mary Klages, English Dept., University of Colorado.

External links

Michel Foucault

Books	Mental Illness and Psychology (1954) Madness and Civilization (1961) The Birth of the Clinic (1963) Death and the Labyrinth (1963) The Order of Things (1966) This is Not a Pipe (1968) The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) Discipline and Punish (1975) The History of Sexuality (1976–1984)

Essays, lectures, dialogues and anthologies	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)

Concepts	Anti-psychiatry Author function Biopolitics Biopower Carceral archipelago Cultural imperialism Disciplinary institution Discontinuity Discourse analysis Dispositif Ecogovernmentality Episteme Genealogy Governmentality Heterotopia Interdiscourse Limit-experience Panopticism Panopticon Parrhesia Power (social and political) Postsexualism Sapere aude

Influence	Cogito and the History of Madness (Derrida) Foucauldian discourse analysis Foucault (Deleuze) The Passion of Michel Foucault (Miller) Giorgio Agamben Gary Gutting Thomas Lemke James Miller Paul Rabinow Claude Raffestin Nikolas Rose

Related articles	Bibliography Foucault–Habermas debate Daniel Defert François Ewald Alan Sheridan

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