THE AUTHORITY OF THE TEXT IN POSTMODERN THOUGHT

Abstract : It is no longer possible to assert the existence of absolute certainty in the interpretation of things (interpretation of texts, interpretation of existence in general), especially with postmodern thinking (with hermeneutics, deconstruction and other approaches), as it has become useless to provide final or neutral interpretations, because turning to the past (the past of the text, or the past of the author) is only to the extent that it makes us understand the present based on the previous conception, and we must then go beyond this framework to a broader horizon than it, since time does not repeat itself twice: we mean by that the time of writing, and because the horizon of the interpreter is constantly changing, and that experiences are ultimately living and continuous experiences - including the experiences of readers and interpreters - and that the coming of "writing" is the coming of "play", and therefore, the text has been brought down from its height - from its sacred rank - to become an endless game of meanings. Keywords: text, meaning, original author, reader, interpreter.