Nietzsche, Foucault and the death of (the) author(ity)

This work is an attempt to explore Michel Foucault's proposition that the author is dead. The death will be treated as an aesthetic counterpart to the death of man (which will be referred to as the subject, humanity, man and so on) in general. Authorship will be a term that encompasses authority over one's writing, one's self and one's surrounding discourse. This work will begin by showing the genealogical connection to Friedrich Nietzsche and his idea that "God is dead." It will then show the importance of the death of the author as it relates to the English classroom. Finally, this work will show a legitimate response to the predicaments created by the death. It will look to social-epistemic rhetoric and social consciousness ideas as a way to re-establish an authoring subject.