The Ethics of Writing : : Authorship and Legacy in Plato and Nietzsche / / Seán Burke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Burke, Seán,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Key to References and Abbreviations --; Prologue: Friedrich Nietzsche in Auschwitz, or the Posthumous Return of the Author --; Introduction: The Responsibilities of the Writer --; Chapter 1. The Ethical Opening --; Chapter 2. The Ethics of Legacy --; Chapter 3. Signature and Authorship in the Phaedrus --; Chapter 4. The Textual Estate: Nietzsche and Authorial Responsibility --; Conclusion: Creativity versus Containment: The Aesthetic Defence --; Bibliography --; Index of Names
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748628865; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748628865?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Seán Burke.

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. Key FeaturesAn original, provocative and arresting construction of a new debate: the responsibility of authors for the effects of their worksCourageous discussion of catastrophic readings which played a part in the establishment of totalitarian regimes such as Nazism, Fascism, and Communism An extension of the author's pioneering work on authorship into its ethical and political significance