The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche - Brossura

Burke, Sean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748641793 ISBN 13: 9780748641796

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Beginning amidst the tombs of the 'dead' God, and the crematoria at Auschwitz, this book confronts Nietzsche's legacy through the lens of Plato. The key question is how authors can protect against the possible 'deviant readings' of future readers and assess 'the risk of writing'. Burke recommends an ethic of 'discursive containment'.The ethical question is the question of our times. Within critical theory, it has focused on the act of reading. This study reverses the terms of inquiry to analyse the ethical composition of the act of writing. What responsibility does an author bear for his legacy? Do 'catastrophic' misreadings of authors (e.g. Plato, Nietzsche) testify to authorial recklessness? These and other questions are the starting-point for a theory of authorial ethics.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Seán Burke worked in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham for thirteen years, and has now retired. His academic publications include The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida (3rd edn, 2008), Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader (1995) and The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche (2008). His first novel, Deadwater (2002) has been published in France as Au bout des docks (2007). He is currently researching a study of discursive ethics in Plato, Levinas and Derrida.

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The Ethics of Writing:Authorship and Legacy in Plato and NietzscheSeán Burke'Burke argues compellingly that no author is completely beyond ethical recall on the ground of artistic immunity or aesthetic irrelevancy... Highly recommended.'ChoiceWhat responsibility does an author bear for his legacy? Do 'catastrophic' misreadings of authors, as we have seen with totalitarian readings of Plato and fascist interpretations of Nietzsche, testify to authorial recklessness? These and other questions are the starting point for a new theory of authorial ethics.Continuing the mission of the 'returned author' begun in his pioneering book The Death and Return of the Author (EUP 2008), Burke recommends the 'law of genre' as a contract drawn up between author and reader to establish ethical responsibility. Criticism, under this contract, becomes an ethical realm and realm of the ethical.Key Featureso An original, provocative and arresting construction of a new debate: the responsibility of authors for the effects of their workso Courageous discussion of catastrophic readings that played a part in the establishment of totalitarian regimes such as Nazism, Fascism and Communismo An extension of the author's pioneering work on authorship into its ethical and political significanceSeán Burke worked in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham for thirteen years. His academic publications include The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida (3rd edition, EUP, 2008) and Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader (EUP, 1995).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748641793
• ISBN 13: 9780748641796
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile