To Kill the Author. Critical Story of a Hermeneutical Crime [Spanish]

Authors

  • Juan Francisco Manrique Charry Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-UNIMINUTO

Abstract

The traditional hermeneutical perspective for reading a text has been to discover the author’s intentions under the folds of the symbol cluster. But in the 60s of the twentieth century, three French thinkers: Barthes, Foucault and Derrida tried to bet on a hermeneutic where the author’s intentions were reduced to one more interpretation, without any superiority over other possible ones. The present text not only seeks to demonstrate the need and advantages of this process of disregarding the author’s intentions in the hermeneutics of the work, a process known as “the author’s death”, but also attempts to show that the paths taken by the authors in question they are not equivalent, but, when evaluating them individually, it is noted that Derrida’s position is presented as the most appropriate to avoid trivializing the bet, although it is not exempt of new problems.

Author Biography

Juan Francisco Manrique Charry, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-UNIMINUTO

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009).

Docente de tiempo completo del Departamento de Filosofía-UNIMINUTO.

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2020-12-16

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No. 35 (2021): January-june

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