The argument of it is not relevant to know what a work of human mind, in the form as it was first fixed by its author in a specific moment of his historical experience, has been quite disseminated. Thus, a philosophical text would be independent of its creator; It would "belong" to different and successive communities of readers in the space and the time. The problem of the authorial intentionality has lost relevance for the field of History of the ideas. If an author lacks in the scene of intellectual processes, important issues concerning to the context of production of texts, the references to the specific place of elaboration of an intellectual work and other important questions disappear with him. This article consists of an attempt to analyze central aspects of interpretative theories of texts, with an emphasis in Michel Foucault's theoretical contributions for the History of Ideas.
authors and readers; theories of interpretation of texts; contemporary historical thought