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1969 lecture given by Michel Foucault
"What Is an Author? " (French: Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur? ) is one of the most important lectures given at the Société Française de Philosophie on 22 February 1969 by French philosopher, sociologist and historian Michel Foucault .[ 1]
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 ".
^ Bouchard, Donald F. ed., Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Michel Foucault (Cornell University Press, 1980), 113.
Books Essays, lectures,
Introduction to Kant's Anthropology "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 Language, Counter-Memory, Practice Herculine Barbin Power/Knowledge Remarks on Marx Le Désordre des familles The Foucault Reader "What Is Enlightenment? " (1984)
Politics, Philosophy, Culture Foucault Live The Politics of Truth Society Must Be Defended Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works Volume 1) Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Volume 2) Abnormal Power (Essential Works Volume 3) Fearless Speech The Hermeneutics of the Subject The Essential Foucault Psychiatric Power Security, Territory, Population The Birth of Biopolitics The Government of Self and Others The Courage of Truth Lectures on the Will to Know On the Government of the Living Subjectivity and Truth Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling On the Punitive Society Concepts Influence Related articles
