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Full Idea
Foucault maintains that for any 'authored' text a plurality of selves fulfils the author function.
Gist of Idea
The author function of any text is a plurality of selves
Source
report of Michel Foucault (works [1978]) by Gary Gutting - Foucault: a very short introduction 2
Book Ref
Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.12
A Reaction
This is a completely different concept of a 'self' from the one normally found in this database. I would call it the sociological concept of self, as something changing with context. So how many selves is 'Jane Austen'?
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
| 21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |