Does it matter who speaks?: The bare experience of the language

Abstract

A lot has been written and spoken about the philosophy of Michel Foucault, which has been analyzed from different perspectives, for the multiple themes that it develops. This article concerns the disappearance of the author as the privileged place and significance of the discourse, and the implications that this involves in the formulation of the author's name as a variable and complex function of the discourse. This Foucault's idea could be related to the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa, which seems to adequate, in some way, to the ideas of Foucault about this theme.