Author function
In the writing of Michel Foucault, the author function is the author as a function of discourse. The term was developed by Michel Foucault in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?" where he discusses whether a text requires or is assigned an author.
Foucault posits that the legal system was central in the rise of the author, as an author was needed (in order to be punished) for making transgressive statements. This is made evident through the rise of the printing press during the time of the Reformation, when religious texts that circulated challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
The author function does not affect all texts in the same way. For example, the author of a science text book is not as clear or definable as the author of a well known novel. It is not a spontaneous creation or entity, but a carefully constructed social position.
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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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