From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics,Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication |
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Authors: | Matthew Boedy |
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Institution: | University of North Georgia |
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Abstract: | To make technical communication scholarship more reflective of the complexity of work done by such communicators, a new concept that marries recent parallel turns to ethics and invention is needed. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a stranger to the field, offers such a concept: responsibility. It covers more explanatory ground than the most cited of ethical concepts, deliberation, and most importantly, centers ethics and invention squarely within the technical communicator’s relationship to language. |
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Keywords: | Ethics pedagogical theory rhetorical theory |
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