Michel Foucault and his Conceptions of Author and Authorship

<p>Among the many concepts that have been<br>problematized by the post-Structuralist<br>thought after 1960s, the idea of the author<br>is an important one. Roland Barthes’<br>Death of the Author and Michel<br>Foucault’s What is an Author tried to<br>analyze the historical evolution of the<br>author and the role that the concept has<br>played in understanding the texts, both<br>literary and philosophical. Foucault’s<br>concern is to show the author’s<br>relationship with the text and the change<br>of this relationship in the various phases<br>of history. In the process, he raises<br>numerous questions with regard to the<br>names and proper names, the function of<br>the author, and types of the authors. This<br>paper Michel Foucault and His<br>Conceptions of Author and Authorship<br>makes an attempt to analyze the general<br>thought structure of Foucault and his<br>historical reading of the emergence of the<br>Author in the Western tradition. </p>