O autor e a obra como funções do discurso em Michel Foucault

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze Michel Foucault’s thinking about the notions of author and work, which are regarded as variable and complex functions of discourse. The first part of the paper connects the notion of author with the problem of subjectivity and the order of discourse. In the second part, the aim is to stress how the same question appears in other works of Foucault, when he analyzes the kinds of circulation and appropriation of discourses, both in ancient times as well as during his time (in relation to his own ‘works’).