According to Michel Foucault an "author" constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. He goes on to say that even today, when we reconstruct the history of a concept, literary genre, or school of philosophy, such categories seem relatively weak, secondary, and superimposed scansions in comparison with the solid and fundamental unit of the author and the work. http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_foucault12.htm
To me an author is someone who represents what information is and how it is kept over time. Without an author we have no way to document anything that has happened over time. it is very important to our future and from our past that people have recorded information and continue to do so.
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