Quotes by Michel Foucault, What is an Author?

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The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
The truth is quite the contrary: the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
As a result, we must entirely reverse the traditional idea of the author. We are accustomed, as we have seen earlier, to — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, “sacralized” and “sacralizing” figures) — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
Texts, books, and discourses really began to have authors (other than mythical, “sacralized” and “sacralizing” figures) — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the r — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?
It would seem that the author’s name, unlike other proper names, does not pass from the interior of a discourse to the r — Michel Foucault, What is an Author?