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The Criticism About the Author’s Authority of Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas
CHAI Yifan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2026.03.006
North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China
The criticism about the authority of the author catches more attention not only in the 20th century literary criticism but also in recent philosophy study, and philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Morris Blanchot, and Emmanuel Levinas do considerable jobs on this issue. Foucault makes a comparison between the traditional writing and recent writing to show the circumstance of the disappearance of the author to emphasize the collapse of authorship. Blanchot introduces his attempt to escape all the visions of the literary world. Levinas introduces there is to show the empty world for the disappearance of the author. To present their demonstration and differences on the problem of the author’s authority, this paper will give a brief introduction and comparison about their criticism on this issue and their suggestions for the left vacancy of the disappearance of the author.
the author’s authority, Michel Foucault, Morris Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas
CHAI Yifan. (2026). The Criticism About the Author’s Authority of Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas. Philosophy Study, May-June 2026, Vol. 16, No. 3, 255-259.
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