The Ethics of Writing - Burke, Seán
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The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche Seán Burke 'Burke argues compellingly that no author is completely beyond ethical recall on the ground of artistic immunity or aesthetic irrelevancy... Highly recommended.' Choice What 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…mehr

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The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche Seán Burke 'Burke argues compellingly that no author is completely beyond ethical recall on the ground of artistic immunity or aesthetic irrelevancy... Highly recommended.' Choice What 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 Features o An original, provocative and arresting construction of a new debate: the responsibility of authors for the effects of their works o Courageous discussion of catastrophic readings that played a part in the establishment of totalitarian regimes such as Nazism, Fascism and Communism o An extension of the author's pioneering work on authorship into its ethical and political significance Seán 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).
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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.