{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-writing-9780748618309","title":"The Ethics of Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurke argues compellingly that no author is completely beyond ethical recall on the ground of artistic immunity or aesthetic irrelevancy... Highly recommended. Choice Burke argues compellingly that no author is completely beyond ethical recall on the ground of artistic immunity or aesthetic irrelevancy... Highly recommended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements        Key to References and Abbreviations        Prologue: Friedrich Nietzsche in Auschwitz,                    Or the Posthumous Return of the Author         Introduction: The Responsibilities of the Writer         Chapter One: The Ethical Opening         Speech and Writing: the Aporia         The Birth of Philosophy Out of the Spirit of Writing         Dionysian Orality versus Socratic 'Inscription'         The Internal Scribe and the Athenian  Legislator         Chapter Two:  The Ethics of Legacy         The Ethics of Question and Answer         Suitable and Unsuitable Readers         Chapter Three:  Signature and Authorship in the Phaedrus         Oral versus Graphic Signatures        Science and Signature          Dialectic and Mathematics: Iterability and the Ethics of Writing         Dialectic and the (Anxious) Origins of Authorship: Tribunal and Signature in the Phaedrus         Chapter Four: The Textual Estate: Nietzsche and Authorial Responsibility         Counter-philosophy         Mixed Genres         The Will to Power as Art         Signature and the Ethical Future         The Estate Settled?         Conclusion: Creativity versus Containment: The Aesthetic Defence         FOOTNOTES         BIBLIOGRAPHY         INDEX","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404467380567,"sku":"9780748618309","price":103.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780748618309.jpg?v=1730486563","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-writing-9780748618309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}