From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics, Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication

Matthew Boedy University of North Georgia

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.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2017-04-03
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2017.1287309
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  1. Written Communication
  2. Technical Communication Quarterly
  3. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
  4. Technical Communication Quarterly

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