Ethics of Authorship : Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierk...

by Daniel Berthold

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Ethics of Authorship : Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard, Paperback by Berthold, Daniel, ISBN 0823233952, ISBN-13 9780823233953, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This is a book about the ethics of authorship. Most directly, it explores different conceptualizations of the responsibilities of the author to the reader. But it also engages the question of what styles of authorship allow these responsibilities to be met. Style itself is an ethical issue, since the relation between the writing subject and the reader--and the dynamics of authority and influence, of gift giving and friendship in this relation--have as much to do with how one writes as what one says. The two writers who serve as the main subjects for this work, the German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel and the Danish Christian existentialist Søren Kierkegaard, invite us to confront particularly challenging questions about the ethics of authorship. Each in his own way explores styles of authorship that employ a variety of strategies of seduction in order to entice the reader into his narratives, strategies that at least on the surface appear to be fundamentally manipulative and unethical. Further, both seek to enact their own deaths as authors, effectively disappearing as reliable guides for the reader. That might also seem to be ethically irresponsible, an abandonment of the reader, who has been seduced only to be deserted. This is the first work to undertake a sustained questioni

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2011
• ISBN: 9780823233953
• Condition: Fine

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